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...Danish immigrant with $30 in his pocket ambled down a gangplank at Ellis Island. He was gawking at the New World's wonders when an impetuous deckhand bumped him from behind, let out a. roar: "Hurry up, you s- o-a b-!" After 37 years, Signius Wilhelm Poul Knudsen, known now as Vice President William S. Knudsen of General Motors, still likes to tell about this introduction to his adopted land, says that he accepted it forthwith as the national gospel. Chuckles he: "I've been hurrying ever since." Dane Knudsen's first...
...bicycle plant and he now became bench hand in the John R. Keim Mills at Buffalo, a bicycle factory which was branching into automobile parts. In less than four years he was assistant manager; in five, manager. When Henry Ford bought the Keim Mills in 1911, "Bill" Knudsen found himself, like many another oldtime bicycle man, in the stripling automobile industry...
...Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen shot back a flat refusal, insisting that bargaining must be by individual plants. Furthermore, declared stocky, blunt-spoken Mr. Knudsen: "Sit- downs are strikes. Such strikers are clearly trespassers and violators of the law of the land. We cannot have bona fide collective bargaining with sit-down strikers in illegal possession of plants. Collective bargaining cannot be justified if one party, having seized the plant, holds a gun at the other party's head...
...Knudsen's third point-that every one of the G. M. strikes had been called against the wishes of a vast majority of the workers affected-the Labor leaders did not comment. Backing for the G. M. executive's assertion came in Flint when all 500 employes of Buick's sheet metal plant sent Buick President Harlow H. Curtice a loyal New Year's greeting, following up a similar Christmas message sent by 1,400 transmission plant workers. But in the automobile industry's complex production mechanism, withdrawal of a few key workmen is just...
...inequalities in pay. Every spontaneous move to create a corporate social life is encouraged. All companies go in for annual picnics, outings, field days. Chrysler has its choir, Chevrolet its glee club. General Motors office workers have a luncheon club, most popular speaker being Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen. General Motors plant workers go in for athletic clubs. Henry Ford's specialty remains a high minimum wage...