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...Marietta and Norwood, Ohio and Middletown, Conn. By last week the strike had got down to scabs, scuffles, professional strikebreakers and pitched battles with police. Though President Rand considered it largely the work of Communists, the affair apparently originated last year when the company bought a factory in Elmira...
...Elmira deal worried the 1,700 workers in the Syracuse factory, which makes Remington portable typewriters. Rumors flew that the company planned to close down in Syracuse, move the portable division to Elmira. Union leaders wrote to President Rand, got no answer for a month. Then Mr. Rand's secretary answered that no plans had been made for Elmira...
Balloting in Syracuse was blocked by the indignant union before it began. Promptly the plant manager posted notice of a two-week shutdown, fired 17 union leaders "for acting like Communists," announced that the portable division would be moved, not to Elmira but to Ilion, leaving 800 Syracusans jobless. This looked remarkably like a lockout...
...against 5.035 trucks. Government purchases of trucks have supplied a very substantial portion of Reo's business but passenger-car sales thus far in 1935 have barely passed last year's total. Willys-Overland, in receivership since February 1933, sold its Canadian plant, and a subsidiary in Elmira, N.Y. has been seized by the sheriff for nonpayment of taxes...
After brief terms on Pittsburgh and New York papers he spent his meagre savings on a half-interest in the Elmira Gazette, prospered slowly but surely. In 1912 he bought the Ithaca Journal, followed it six years later with two Rochester papers. These he merged into the Times-Union, which he still edits personally at his Rochester headquarters. Thenceforth round, beaming Publisher Gannett acquired other upstate papers, added small dailies in New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, briefly entered the metropolitan field by buying and then reselling Brooklyn's venerable Daily Eagle. Nearly two years ago he bought his only magazine...