Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outstanding exception to the general policy was the Ford Motor Co. Henry Ford had long made it a practice to hire the handicapped in proportion to their presence in the plants' communities. The late Edsel Ford wrote in the Saturday Evening Post last winter that 10% of the company's employes in Detroit are handicapped-4,390 blind or deaf, 7,262 otherwise disabled...
...basic issue was at stake. To perform its function of directing production, management has to have not only officers but noncommissioned officers, just as much as an army does. But in most industries foremen, although they still direct production, no longer directly exercise the power to hire & fire. For this reason, apparently, NLRB last year decided that foremen are just a special grade of skilled labor and entitled to the privileges of labor...
...Another month he made up his loss, and made money. Visions of quick turnover profits brought in many fly-by-night dealers who can go in & out of business in 15 minutes. Instead of shipping west by train or by truck, as do legitimate dealers, they reportedly hire civilians to drive cars west on black-market gas coupons. Unofficial estimates are that 20% of the cars registered in the New York area have been shunted out by such methods...
...dither of debate and determination, by a vote of 270-to-107, it passed the Hobbs bill to end labor racketeering. Authored by Alabama's drawling, union-hating Representative Sam Hobbs, the bill would make criminal such tricks as stopping out-of-state trucks, forcing the trucker to hire a local union driver or pay his day's wages...
...selected war industries how many jobs would be opened to qualified Negroes, answers showed that 51 per cent were absolutely closed to colored workers in both northern and southern states, for unskilled as well as skilled workers. Although the government has urged and even demanded that industry hire Negroes, management officials have been slow to respond. Standard Steel of Kansas City, Missouri, declared: "We have never had a Negro worker in twenty-five years and don't intend to start...