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...worn thin.* A back-to-work campaign had drawn about 3,000 of the approximately 10,000 workers into the plant, past the small groups of pickets of the Communist-led Local 248 of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers. A-C's up-from-office-boy President Walter Geist (TIME, June 10) was winning with his strategy of playing for time. (Strikes in five other Allis-Chalmers plants had been settled with the hallowed 18½? wage increase, but without the union shop which Local 248 insists...
Violence was a two-way strategy. For the union it stirred another move by Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach to bring union and company together this week. For Walter Geist, who is evidently determined to break Local 248's grip on the plant, it gave accent to his contention of "irresponsible leadership" in the union. One of the sourest labor disputes in the country had gone bitter again...
...Geist's Allis-Chalmers also had a long record of labor disputes. In the early days of the war, its plants were shut for over three months while the Army waited in vain for millions of dollars of turbines and gun parts. For the past four months, 60,000 employes in seven Allis-Chalmers plants have been in & out. The present dispute, which has shut the plants at West Allis and La Crosse, involves no wage issue. The issues: seniority, employment practices, union security...
...Administration took an anxious look at the country's wornout farm implements. Old strikes at other farm implement companies (International Harvester, Caterpillar Tractor, John Deere, Oliver Farm Equipment) had already set farm production back. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach looked down his gun. He told Clausen and Geist to make "a real effort" to settle things-or the U.S. would move...
Early this week Geist's Allis-Chalmers resumed negotiations with the C.I.O. But Leon Clausen only growled and glowered from the brush. The U.S., which has seized a mail-order house, oil fields, meat packers, coal mines and railroads got ready to seize Clausen's Case...