Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As the Northrop workers trooped in to sign the pledge, Donald Douglas declared: "Reopening the plant under such conditions is a step toward industrial harmony and beneficial to all."
Meantime, a more notable reopening occurred near Los Angeles, where Northrop aircraft, subsidiary of big Douglas Aircraft, operated again after a seven-week strike. President Donald Douglas had also declared that he was through, and followed up by revealing that the Army had refused to accept delivery of Northrop fighting...
More significant than the quarrel was the method of settlement. Donald Douglas concocted an indigenous plan which he thought would cure a number of labor ills. He offered to rehire the entire Northrop force (1,400) including workers whose layoff precipitated the strike, provided each man would sign an agreement...
Marching back to work with the rest, Charles Hollinshead, president of the U. A. W. local, declared that the Douglas plan was not far from a yellow-dog contract, under which employes promise not to unionize. Said he: "I have been advised such pledges aren't worth the paper...
Henchmen of Minister President General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, autocrat of the German Four-Year Plan of Rearmament and Autarchy, have long since occupied the Ministry of Economics (TIME, Sept. 27 et seq.), yet Berlin correspondents have been unable to get confirmation that Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht has...