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...weeks before, Knudsenhillman, OPM's doubleheaded boss, had tried and signally failed to untangle the Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, March 3). Knudsenhillman took another deep breath, summoned Bethlehem spokesmen and union heads to Washington. While striking workers fought with Buffalo police, William Knudsen and Sidney Hillman labored for peace...
...wage dispute; 2) an immediate conference between management and the union to discuss grievances; 3) an election at the plant to determine a bargaining agent and a promise from the company to sit down and bargain. When the company threatened to demand that the militia be called out, Knudsen leaned across the table, shook a long finger, declared: "That would be pure murder." Hour after hour the conferees wrestled and wrangled...
Near midnight, Knudsenhillman called newsmen to Knudsen's office, in weary triumph announced the terms of a truce. The union's first two demands would be met. As for an election, OPM and NLRB would explore the possibilities. Heavy with fatigue, arm-in-arm, Knudsenhillman shuffled home...
...Chalmers dispute was still a mare's-nest. Trouble bubbled anew at Ford, where C. I. O.'s Auto Workers' union gave formal notice (as required by Michigan law) of intent to strike at the Lincoln plant, at Highland Park, at gigantic River Rouge. What worried Knudsen as much as anything was the howl, getting louder & louder, for legislative action to prevent strikes...
...Knudsen, who had expressed his opposition to anti-strike legislation, gave the House Judiciary Committee his plan for watering down heated disputes before they reached the strike stage. His plan: if efforts of the Conciliation Service failed, 60% of all employes at a defense plant must approve the strike at a secret ballot, and notice must then be given of intent to strike; Government officials would investigate and report within ten days; the strike must be deferred until 30 days after the report...