Word: knudsenhillman
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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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...
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...
...chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine hours after the strike began, steel was beginning to roll again in Lackawanna...
...Distressed." Knudsenhillman still had troubles to worry about. Scarcely had OPM mopped its brow when word came that a fourth International Harvester plant, the big Chicago McCormick Works, had shut down. And at week's end the Allis-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...
...radio program: CBS's thrice-a-week Back Where I Come From, a sustainer devoted to U. S. folk songs. Among the White House guests: the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury & wives, the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Commandants of Marine Corps and Coast Guard, Mr. Knudsenhillman & wives, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish-whose assistant-in-charge-of-folk-song-archives, Alan Lomax, was master of ceremonies...