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First name on the new U.S. list, but missing from Britain's, was that of blue-eyed Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren, famed Swedish industrialist. The State Department black-listed him personally, but not his companies...
Labor members made no effort to hide their delight. Industrialist members, stunned by the President's legerdemain (some privately characterized his action in plainer language), finally gathered wits and declared: "[We] accept the President's direction. ..." Stating their conviction that the closed shop was "the most highly controversial and emotional question in industrial relations today," they therefore appealed to labor, in effect, not to press the issue while...
...Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, industrialist, M.P., did give TIME a hurried interview but TIME did not garble it. A stanch Roman Catholic, Sir Patrick disclosed that he cooled off on the Oxford Group when he found that Roman Catholic representatives were not included as signatories to a Group press manifesto concerning "religious freedom." Sir Patrick added that on investigating Group claims to have forestalled work stoppages in the Midlands, he had found they had actually been avoided by "sordid means" -he used the phrase with a twinkle in his eye-"like better pay and better hours...
Since then, secessions from the Group have landslided in Britain. Example: Sir Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon, industrialist, member of Parliament, ardent Group sympathizer. Last week Sir Patrick derided Buchmanite claims to have settled three impending work stoppages in the Midlands by urging Buchmanite principles on management and labor. Sir Patrick investigated, decided that the trouble had been cured by "sordid means like better pay and better hours...
...nurture, sometimes encourage, union membership). In only one instance has it recommended a closed shop: the Bethlehem Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...