Word: doug
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...signed into effect the first 40-hour agreement in the area with Doug Peach, and offered such advanced amenities for the time as company cafeterias, recreation fields and medical clinics. "His desire to help people almost got out of hand in the end," says a Rubery Owen executive. "He wanted to own people, like Krupp...
...Doug Peach first came to Rubery Owen under very different circumstances. In 1940, his arm badly wounded in a machine-gun attack near Lille, France, Peach escaped by sea from Dunkirk and was hospitalized for nearly 2½ years. "My father was shot up in the first World War, and I used to hear him refer to the political slogan, 'A country fit for heroes to come back to.' Instead, when I was released, I was offered a clerical job for the magnificent sum of $8 a week. Well, I went to Rubery Owen as a spot welder...
...beginning of the union. I didn't know what it was really going to be like. I still had this idea that it was going to be more like a family working together. At that time I certainly never saw them as adversaries. I only met Doug Peach fairly briefly at that time. He was friendly toward me, but a few managers told me he was a bad lot and to be watched very carefully...
...Doug Peach does not feel that the union movement has made him faceless: "Fifteen years ago, I was crying out to be accepted as a human being instead of a clock number. But there has been quite a change. I cannot see anything I am crying out for so desperately now. I don't really want to change my life...
...time the 4 o'clock whistle blows across the plant, Doug Peach is already...