Word: forde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full color winners: Sam Adams, Bill Boucher, John Carey, Ed Davis, John Densmore, Joe Eaton, John Emerson, Hollis French, Al Green, Al Key, Peter Manning Smith, Colin McIntyre, Tom Nuzum, Ford Schoch, Lou Travis, Len Wheeler, Ed white, Charles Whiting...
...private dining room of Detroit's uptown Rackham building, U.A.W.'s scrappy, redheaded President Walter Reuther, his right arm still in a splint from a gunman's shotgun blast (TIME, May 3, 1948), battled to the last minute to force Ford to terms. As the walkout began, Reuther tried to tell newsmen what the fight was all about...
...trouble, he said, centered in the vast "B" Building of the 1,096-acre Rouge plant, where assembly lines normally spill out between 330 and 350 Fords every eight-hour working day. For several months, Reuther said, Ford had been speeding up the assembly line without consulting the union or adding more workers. Reuther called this "an unsolved grievance." Ford denied the union's charges, suggested arbitration as provided by the contract. Reuther countered that the arbitrator would have to be "part doctor, engineer and astrologer...
...like it or not, Reuther finally had to go along. Reuther could only hope that Ford would find a way to take him off the hook. This week, as the paralysis of Ford's River Rouge complex threatened to make thousands of other Ford workers idle, Reuther suggested, and Ford agreed, to resume negotiations...
Newsmen cooled their heels for two hours while Chandler mulled things over with National League President Ford Frick, New York Giants officials, members of Chandler's staff and a stiff upper Lip. Finally, he called them into his office and issued a terse communiqu...