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There was a small but powerful union already: the Foreman's Association of America, 14,000 strong, headed by florid, black-haired Robert Howard Keys, a 30-year-old ex-machinist, ex-assistant foreman at Ford's River Rouge. By last week Keys had a contract with Ford, was negotiating with Packard, had petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a contract to become the foreman's exclusive bargaining agency in General Motors' Detroit Diesel Engine Division...
Twilight Zone. A decade ago the organization of foremen would have been unthinkable. Yet with the rapid rise of unionism, the oldtime position of the foreman has quietly been revolutionized. Much of his oldtime authority has been whittled away by union shop stewards. His pay (in Detroit between $4,000 and $6,000) has not gone up as fast as that of the workers. Says Keys: "The production guys have a union. The fellows at the top look out for themselves. No one looks out for the foremen. We are strictly in the middle...
Pipsqueak to Airacobra. Born in pipsqueak Mentone, Ind., Larry Bell was so aviation-crazy he went from high school to work in the Glenn L. Martin plant, barged ahead to shop foreman when only 18, then vice president and general manager. In 1928 he switched to Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, got along famously until 1935, when the company decided to move to San Diego, concentrate on flying boats. But Larry liked Buffalo and speedy landplanes. So he decided to stay put, start his own company with some Consolidated leftover personnel. It was a nightmare grind...
...those days the Gazette had competition from the Emporia Republican. Circulation was 485, payroll $45 a week for two girl typesetters, a shop foreman, two reporters who also hustled ads. Circulation last month: 7,139 (Emporia's population: 13,188); White's payroll, $1,200 a week for 38 employes. The Republican had been erased...
Amazed but pleased was hard-bitten Track Foreman Tom Stamos, as he watched his students and clerks and professional men handle the heavy rails under the hot western sun. "They work,- how they work...