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...ended in a stinging defeat for the union. After 328 days of mental and physical violence, the tattered remnant of U.A.W. Local 248 returned to work at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant near Milwaukee, without having won any of its demands. Cried the local's president, Robert Buse: "The company expected us to hold out until hell froze over. This is a surprise move-a tactic they did not expect...
...Head. Meanwhile the House Education and Labor Committee got an odd lesson in semantics. The United Auto Workers' Robert Buse, leader of the ten-month-old Allis-Chalmers strike, admitted that he, and "everybody else on the picket line," had signed a nominating petition for a Communist candidate for governor of Wisconsin. But then he coolly denied that he was a Communist himself, or that his Local 248 was Communist...
...state convention in out-of-the-way Wausau, C.I.O. moderates ousted the left-wingers who had run the show since 1937. Out went party-liner Robert Buse, leader of the bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...
Last week, after A-C had again broken off negotiations, Local 248's President Robert Buse (a crony of many an avowed Communist in Wisconsin) tried a desperate maneuver. Violating a court injunction, he threw about 800 pickets in massed formation in front of some of the plant's gates. The stage was set for violence. On four afternoons pickets and cops stood toe-to-toe and slugged it out. Clothes were torn off, nonstrikers' cars tipped over. About 5,000 people, many of them high-school kids, came out to the Milwaukee suburb and joined...
...Lake Garda; Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, died of injuries after a test flight crash last May; Tomaso Dal Molin, killed testing a plane in 1930; Lieut. Bonnet killed training for the races in 1929; Capt. Giuseppe Motta, killed testing a plane for the 1929 races; Lieut. F.R. Buse whose plane crashed on the Potomac in 1928; Lieut. Kinkead who crashed on the Solent...