Abstract

The Shape of Things

This article presents information about political and economic developments from around the globe. A conference between the Japanese ambassadors to Berlin and Rome was followed by inspired rumors of an early military alliance between Japan and its axis. In its strike of tool and die workers in twelve key plants of General Motors Corp., the C.I.O. section of the United Automobile Workers won its principal victory over the American Federation of Labor. In the agreement which concluded the strike, both General Motors and the strikers could claim points of victory; what is more important from the point of view of union strategy, the C.I.O. group established itself as the representative of employees in some forty-two General Motors plants.