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Some 5,000,000 listeners last week heard the once-notorious Bedaux ("speed-up") System and the C.I.O. publicly agree. The president of the Bedaux Co. and the president of the left-wing Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, broadcasting on America's Town Meeting of the Air concurred: joint management, labor, Government, and engineering councils were the way to speed up war production...
...president of the Bedaux Co. is no longer Charles E. Bedaux, nor are its policies his. Much water has gone under the bridge since he tried to publicize his system by touring the U.S. with the Duke of Windsor (TIME, Nov. 15, 1937). When a howl from the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. queered the tour and stigmatized the name of Bedaux, Bedaux's lieutenants heaped bitter words on him. He retired, went back to France. Into the presidency moved deep-eyed, handsome Albert Ramond. Said he last week: "We stuck to the sinking ship and we got very...
...Jewish boys named Harry and Maxwell Kunin had rolled out to Chicago in a Pullman and gone into the grocery trade. With their father they opened a small store, branched into manufacturing and wholesaling, did a $250,000 gross business in 1919, their first year. Paying workers on a Bedaux-like bonus system, concentrating on relatively few (2,000) items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with its 11,000 items (including 84 brands...
...Charles Bedaux, sponsor of the proposed trip of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to the U. S., is cordially disliked by organized labor because he (1 heads an agency for strikebreakers, 2 is chairman of Republic Steel Corporation, 3 called out the militia in a textile strike, 4 is a friend of the DuPonts, 5 invented an efficiency unit system which workers regard the same as '"stretch-out" or "speed...
Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson was Woman of 1936, but the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with the assistance of Herr Hitler and Mr. Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME...