Many reasons: pay disputes, dissatisfaction with labor union heads and even a bit of commie subversion (the Dies Committee was a huge deal).
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Not at all, my friend 
Part of this thread have noticed is the number of strikes in the US. They were dealt with rather harshly but they occurred. Work was long and hard. But a whole lot safer than in most other countries and on the whole, paid quite well.
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I guess the public pressure to get back to work would be quite persistent
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You bet it would. Plus being blacklisted from all war work.
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U.S. Navy Department (July 21, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 99
North Pacific Area.
U.S. submarines have sunk three Japanese destroyers in the vicinity of Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.
These sinkings are in addition to those previously announced in Navy Department communiqués.
Several air attacks against enemy-occupied Kiska Island have been made recently by long-range Army bombers. These attacks have centered on the enemy encampment at Kiska and on ships in Kiska Harbor. It has been impossible to observe and appraise the results of these raids.
U.S. Army and Navy aircraft are continuing joint operations against the enemy forces occupying islands in the western Aleutians.
The Pittsburgh Press (July 22, 1942)
U.S. casualties to date: 44,413
4,801 killed, 36,124 are listed as missing
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Daring makes the luck –
3 destroyers sink as sub stabs Jap invasion fleet
Lone U.S. craft strikes in heart of foe’s concentration in Aleutian waters – toll of ships sent to bottom by underseas crews rises to 6
By B. J. McQuaid
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Draft still faces men if wives work
Congressional deferment out if boards lack 1-As to fill quotas
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U.S. takes three more Atlantic City hotels
Atlantic City, New Jersey (UP) –
Col. Robert P. Glassburn today announced that three more Atlantic City hotels had been acquired by the Army Air Force replacement technical training service.
One, the 51-year-old Hotel Shelburne, one-time rendezvous of Diamond Jim Brady, George M. Cohan and Lillian Russell, was renovated and 11 stories added on 1926 at a cost of $5 million.
The others are the Knickerbocker, cost $3,500,000, and the Senator, a 15-story building completed in 1931 at a cost of $1,250,000.
Anti-inflation power studied by Roosevelt
Further canvass decided on at conference with legislative aides
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Litvinov renews new front plea, sees Roosevelt
Russians in U.S. deplore ‘complacent’ attitude of Allied; Soviet Embassy fears United Nations may lose war if Red Army is knocked out
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