Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small operators reacted violently against the big steelmen, the big coal operators, John Lewis. They called the whole contract a "conspiracy" between Big Labor and Big Business, callously contrived to squeeze out the small owners. The anxiety of the big operators over possible antitrust suits had been, in fact, one of the main causes of delay in negotiations...
...foreman's union. The experiment, said Ford, had "failed hopelessly." The company withdrew its recognition of the independent Foreman's Association of America, whose six-week strike against Ford had hardly put a nick in production. The company stated that it had originally signed an F.A.A. contract-the first in the auto industry-in hopes of making the foremen a more effective part of management. Instead, relations had become so bad that the company now felt that such unions were "unsound in principle...
...C.I.O.-U.A.W., and the Taft-Hartley law will relieve industry of any obligation to bargain with supervisory employees. At week's end, the foremen still on strike meekly voted to go back to work. They sorrowfully admitted that F.A.A., which had existed chiefly by grace of the Ford contract, was about dead...
...points, to us, spell job security. A general wage increase at this time would put an undue strain on the company's resources." The union withdrew its 15?-an-hour demand, settled for six paid holidays (equivalent to a 3?-an-hour raise). In September, when the present contract expires, the union will decide whether to renew its wage demands. Said Conard: "The union was very cooperative...
Make It on Horses. But not Ferd Owen. He went right on rounding up more mules. While the Department of Agriculture hemmed & hawed, he flew down to Mexico City to see Mexican officials himself. When he went home, Owen carried a contract to sell the Mexican Government 20,000 mules at the handsome price of $115 a head. That just about eliminated everyone else...