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...sandbagged four presidents in 16 months, last week finished off a fifth. Hoarse-voiced, 275-lb. Frederick Riebel Jr., after seven months of falling through trap doors, tripping over wires and hearing noises in the woodwork, gave up and left. The big news was his successor. Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, who has been Brewster's board chairman since March, went...
...snares that brought down the behemoth Mr. Riebel and now faced Mr. Kaiser were still the same: 1) an ironclad, waterproof contract with C.LO.'s United Automobile Workers which straitjackets management, banning it from firing, shifting or disciplining workers without union permission, 2) bad control of materials, which sometimes forced workers to loaf...
...Senate's Truman Committee called in Kaiser and gave him a Hobson's choice: to reorganize plant management, ie., to take over Brewster production himself, or resign from the board. Reluctantly, Kaiser took over. Said the miracle man glumly: "It's not an alluring prospect to take over what's reputed to be the worst situation in the country...
Pulmotor Department. To help revive Brewster, Kaiser installed his tall, bespectacled son, Henry Jr., who has been Kaiser's eyes and legs on many a West Coast project, as administrative assistant. His job: to kill off the hex. Then the War Labor Board gave Kaiser a mighty boost by designating an arbiter to settle disputes on the spot, and put Brewster's union on probation for six months. With this solid backing, Kaiser sat down with the tough, headstrong boss of the Brewster union, Tom De Lorenzo,* got from him a promise that the union would cooperate...
...Kaiser appointed Henry Morton, his labor troubleshooter, to study the problem. But, in a dark week, the only bright spot for Kaiser was furnished by the War Labor Board. It acted to eliminate two of the chief reasons for the production slump: 1) the squabble between management and U.A.W.-C.I.O over a new contract; 2) the jurisdictional tussle between the union and the Navy over plant guards who are both union members and Coast Guardsmen. WLB ordered a contract signed on points already agreed upon and removed the guards, whose status caused the August strike, from union jurisdiction. Faintly encouraged...