Word: buses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received a report from its Labor Committee that a 1941 strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant near Milwaukee was called at the direction of the Communist party. The committee charged Harold Christoffel and Robert Buse, past & present presidents of the U.A.W. local, with falsely testifying while under oath, asked the Justice Department to prosecute them...
...march back to work would not mean peace at AC. The local was determined to recapture its lost members, win a new bargaining election. Said Buse: "Our fight must now be carried on inside the plant...
...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...
Last week, the charge of Communism was just about clinched. Buse and the local's honorary president, Harold Christoffel, had their pasts examined by a subcommittee of the House labor committee, and the evidence that they had been Communists, despite sworn denials, set the committee studying a citation for perjury. On the strength of this, Allis-Chalmers had fired them both...
...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...