Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironic that Kohler Co. became an antagonist in the U.S.'s ugliest strike. President Herbert V. Kohler, 66, whose Austrian-born father founded the firm in 1873, considers himself a just and benevolent employer. The Kohlers dreamed the noble but now old-fashioned dream of providing both "bread and roses" for their workers. To house Kohler employees, the company built on the outskirts of Sheboygan a 500-house garden city, with its own schools and recreation facilities. With its handsome, well-built red brick houses and patches of landscaped greenery, this monument to paternalism, incorporated as the Village...
...Walter Reuther's U.A.W. finally succeeded in winning from Kohler Co. a skimpy one-year contract. Basis of U.A.W.'s claim to jurisdiction over the workers of a bathroom-fixture company: U.A.W. had a contract with the Briggs Manufacturing Co., which made both auto parts and the kinds of fixtures that Kohler makes...
...kept on balking at even a seniority rule, and U.A.W. called a strike. Kohler laid in an arsenal of submachine guns, shotguns, clubs and tear-gas bombs, settled down for a long siege. Apparently, tough-fibered Herbert Kohler welcomed the strike as an opportunity to shake off Reuther & Co. A high Kohler official predicted that the strike would bring the company 20 years of peace, as had the broken 1934 strike...
Some 2,800 of Kohler Co.'s 3,300 workers joined the strike, and for 54 days locked-arm mass picketing kept the plant shut down. Kohler placed ads in papers all over Wisconsin, offering new workers permanent jobs. Today, despite all the striker efforts to discourage workers with threats, name-calling, beatings and paint bombs, Kohler has some 2,500 employees at work...
...late 1955, having failed to defeat Herbert Kohler through picketing his plant and harassing his workers, Reuther & Co., with Kohler-like Germanic stubbornness, undertook a nationwide boycott of Kohler products. Today U.A.W. has more than a dozen full-time employees scattered around the U.S. who do nothing but urge plumbers, contractors, municipal officials, to boycott Kohler fixtures. Under union pressure, governing bodies in Boston, Los Angeles County and a scattering of small towns have passed resolutions against installing Kohler products in municipal building projects. U.A.WT. insists that all this is hurting Kohler badly. The family-owned Kohler Co. claims...