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...basis of mass production) keep unit costs up, output down. Most serious handicap of all is an antiquated supply system. Big British manufacturers depend on as many as 300 little independent firms for parts and materials. Lack of vital supplies held one recent week's production of Hillman Minxes down to eight cars-each of which, by company estimates, cost a staggering...
With threats and pleas, he has held the C.I.O. together. When the Auto Workers were set to rescind the wartime no-strike pledge in 1944, Murray stemmed the tide with a speech delivered under heavy emotion. When occasion demands, he can be tough. When Sidney Hillman began to show signs of getting too independent with his Political Action Committee, Phil Murray cracked down with an order that P.A.C. must operate through the 39 regional C.I.O. offices, which he controls...
With 400,000 U.S. workers idle because of strikes, such sophisticated detachment seemed almost naive. But U.S. clothing manufacturers, who last week faced the hard bargainers of Sidney Hillman's wise old union of needleworkers, saw nothing starry-eyed in the union's demands. Reason: through years of patient dickering, smart Sidney Hillman has in many respects become co-manager of all the shops where his union supplies the labor; the union has sometimes bailed management out of its difficulties...
Thus at a time when management seemed determined to yield mighty few inches in any industry, Amalgamated had got its usual ell. For his 150,000 overcoat and suitmen, President Hillman reported a 20% to 31% pay raise amounting to $60 million (with no hike in clothing prices); and including six paid holidays and continuation of insurance benefits at the employer's expense. For his 45,000 shirtmakers, he announced a 20% raise with like trimmings...
...Timesman is round, greying, 43-year-old George Walter Streator, new to daily newspapering but a veteran free lance writer, teacher and labor organizer for Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers. Lately he had worked for WPB's labor division. The Times, in hiring Streator for general reporting, followed the example of four neighbors : the Herald Tribune, Post and Brooklyn Eagle, each of which has one Negro staffer, and PM, which...