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...Trud, the trade-union paper, he found a young shoe-factory foreman named Vassily Matrosov being praised to the Red skies for the "amazing" changes by which he had boosted output. To hear Trud tell it, Comrade Matrosov was a combination Bedaux, Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in a straight-faced cable, Middleton described Matrosov's amazing changes. The foreman "found that much of a cutter's time was lost in carrying leather to the cutting machine. ... He figured out that this could be done by an auxiliary worker. . . ." Also the "needle-witted Mr. Matrosov" had noticed...
Died. Charles Eugene Bedaux, 56, wily industrial engineer; of a self-administered overdose of sleeping powders; in Miami, Fla. Dark, affable, French-born Bedaux came to the U.S. in 1906 as a laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation. Rich from his Plan, Bedaux bought a 14th-century French chateau where his friend the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour...
Arriving in the U.S. in 1906, French-born Bedaux washed dishes, worked as a sand hog, finally evolved the Bedaux system of workmen's pay based on units of production. While organized labor screamed that the system was only the infamous "stretchout" and turned foremen into Simon Legrees, Bedaux made millions. He took out citizenship papers, found a new socialite wife in Michigan, hobnobbed with industrialists, finally became a pal of the Duke of Windsor, later openly admitted: "I am an out & out Fascist...
This admission was made at the time Bedaux's 14th-Century chateau in France was being used for the wedding of the Duke to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. Thereafter Bedaux's fascist tie-up became more evident. It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement." This theory thinly disguised Nazi ideology by advocating the intervention of the state in labor controversies and class frictions (i.e., improving the lot of the masses by putting them in their place...
Last week Bedaux's place seemed reserved for him for some time to come...