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[Chilinskas <re...@fo...>]

" "Well, how about my company?" Melroy wanted to know. "Your I.F.A.W.
members walked out on me, without any notice whatever, at twelve hundred
today. Am I to consider that an act of your union, or will you disavow
it so that I can fire all of them for quitting without permission?" "And
how about the action of members of your union, acting on instructions
from Harry Crandall, in re-packing the Number One Doernberg-Giardano
breeder-reactor at our plant, after the plutonium and the U-238 and the
neutron-source containers had been removed, in order to re-initiate a
chain reaction to prevent Mr. Melroy's employees from working on the
reactor?" Leighton demanded. "Am I to understand that the union sustains
that action, too?" "I hadn't known about that," Fields said, somewhat
startled. "Neither had I," Cronnin added. "When did it happen?" "About
sixteen hundred today," Melroy told him. "We were on the plane from Oak
Ridge, then," Fields declared. "We know nothing about that." "Well, are
you going to take the responsibility for it, or aren't you?" Leighton
insisted. Lyons, who had been toying with a small metal paperweight,
rapped on the table with it. "Gentlemen," he interrupted. "We're trying
to cover too many subjects at once. I suggest that we confine ourselves,
at the beginning, to the question of the dismissal of these men, Burris
and Koffler. If we find that the I.F.A.W. has a legitimate grievance in
what we may call the Burris-Koffler question, we can settle that and
then go on to these other questions." "I'm agreeable to that," Melroy
said. "So are we," Cronnin nodded. "All right, then. Since the I.F.A.W.
is the complaining party in this question, perhaps you gentlemen sh