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The next big legal battle in the labor field will be the appeal from a recent Georgia decision to the Supreme Court. At stake: the constitutionality of the Railway Labor Act. Six employees won their case in which they protested forced payment of dues when part of the money went for political purposes not germane to collective bargaining. … A total of $4 billion was paid to unemployed workers during 1958. Checks averaged $31 weekly. . . . The government is planning an office building in New York which will be second in size only to the Pentagon. . . . AP reports that U.S. industry will have spent $500 million on giveaway programs during 1958.

Anti-American sentiment in Panama has prompted renewed official interest in a canal through Nicaragua. … Russia may be preparing to dump its surplus metals on the world market—a move calculated to depress a market already depressed by mammoth stockpiles in Western countries.

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The next big legal battle in the labor field will be the appeal from a recent Georgia decision to the Supreme Court. At stake: the constitutionality of the Railway Labor Act. Six employees won their case in which they protested forced payment of dues when part of the money went for political purposes not germane to collective bargaining. … A total of $4 billion was paid to unemployed workers during 1958. Checks averaged $31 weekly. . . . The government is planning an office building in New York which will be second in size only to the Pentagon. . . . AP reports that U.S. industry will have spent $500 million on giveaway programs during 1958.

Anti-American sentiment in Panama has prompted renewed official interest in a canal through Nicaragua. … Russia may be preparing to dump its surplus metals on the world market—a move calculated to depress a market already depressed by mammoth stockpiles in Western countries.