Word: gormanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strike Leader Francis J. Gorman was "very well satisfied" with the new setup. Mill owners seemed less pleased. Only after President Roosevelt had summoned him to a White House heart-to-heart in mid-week did George A. Sloan, Cotton-Textile Institute's president and spokesman for employers, issue his first statement since the end of the strike. He and his cohorts were willing to "cooperate" with the new Board. Like Leader Gorman he read victory for his cause in the Winant Board's report (TIME, Oct. 1). It had found working conditions vastly improved under the textile...
...have secured an end to the stretch-out," claimed Leader Gorman. But the Winant report specifically stated that "it is not feasible at this time to evolve any general formulas" for regulating the stretch-out. An impartial board of three was to examine stretch-out problems in plants specified by Labor's representative and the Code Authority...
...have secured a method of determining hours on a basis of fact," claimed Leader Gorman. Not so conclusive was the Winant Board's proposal that the Federal Trade Commission make a study of the textile industry to see if manufacturers could afford to reduce hours without reducing...
...have secured practical recognition of our union," claimed Leader Gorman. But the Winant Board specifically turned down blanket recognition of United Textile Workers union, proposed instead a "plant-to-plant" representation arrangement...
...have secured reform in the whole administration of the labor provisions of the code," claimed Leader Gorman. Here he was on solid ground. Strongest point made by the Winant Board was that the National Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, which works through the Code Authority, was wholly ineffective, should be supplanted by a body like the autonomous and impartial Steel Labor Relations Board. The Winant Committee thought that "investigation of labor complaints against management by management itself cannot be defended...