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Five men were appointed as instructors and tutors. They are: John D. Ferry of Dawson, Yukon Territory, Canada in Biochemical Sciences; Paul M. A. Linebarger of Washington, D. C. in Government William D. Greene of Dublin, Ireland, in Greek and Latin; Hunter D. Farish, of Camden, Alabama, in History; and Donald O. Hebb, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, in Psychology...
Last month hundreds of Philco employes marched across the Delaware River from Philadelphia into Camden, N. J., helped RCA employes win a six-week strike for more pay (TIME. July 27). Due in no small measure to the costs of the Camden rumpus, the earnings of RCA dropped some $200,000 below comparable 1935 figures in the second quarter...
Same hour, same day as the Democratic National Convention opened in Philadelphia last month, 9,000 members of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America went on strike at RCA Manufacturing Co.'s plant at Camden, N. J. Official demands of this potent industrial union were a closed shop, abolition of RCA's company union, a 20% wage increase. Real objectives were recognition by RCA of the union as sole collective bargaining agency within the plant, the same working conditions accorded employes of the nearby Philco Radio and Television Corp. factory...
...weeks ago the first mass fighting occurred. Camden's five City Commissioners did nothing except order the RCA loudspeaker silenced because it disturbed them at City Hall five blocks away. Less irresolute, New Jersey's Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd called attention of the Grand Jury to a "serious situation." Police began to use their clubs...
Last week the Camden lid blew off to make real news. In its "final statement," RCA demanded that the strike cease, refused to recognize John Lewis' United Workers as the sole bargaining agency even if a Labor Relations Board poll should show it to represent a majority of RCA's plant employes. One afternoon last week a crowd of 3,000. including 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp. sympathizers, went after RCA employes as they filed out of the plant. Bricks, stones and clubs flew freely in a two-hour pitched battle (see cuts). Next...