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Wisconsin knows Walter Jodok Kohler as its onetime conservative Republican Governor who was a great and good friend of Herbert Clark Hoover. To the U. S. at large, however, he is THE Kohler of Kohler. maker of washstands, bathtubs, plumbing fixtures. He is also the maker of Kohler, the model industrial village which adjoins his large estate and his plant outside Sheboygan...
...town of Kohler, started before the War, looks much like a Midwestern college town. Mr. Kohler built its dormitory-like American Club to house some 300 bachelor workers. Kohler Improvement Co. built its houses (mostly $5,000 and $7,000 homes) for Kohler workers at cost. Kohler Building & Loan Association took their first mortgages and Kohler Co. itself often took second mortgages. All a Kohler worker had to have was about 10% in cash. A town of handsome little homes. set back behind green hedges and green lawns on winding streets, Kohler has long been the perfect picture...
Last week Kohler was ablaze with gorgeous hollyhocks and its first serious labor trouble. Upwards of 1,000 pickets, holding their line with a stout rope, marched up & down before the main entrance of the Kohler plant. Within 200 nonstriking employes were kept prisoner. No one was allowed to enter, no one to leave-except Mr. Kohler of Kohler. He drove up in one of his four Lincolns. strode, white-faced and grim-jawed, to the picket line, boldly lifted the pickets' rope and went in to a chorus of jeers...
Running East, the strike virus spread panic in Minneapolis when 6,000 drivers climbed down off their trucks and began agitating a city-wide strike. Leaping the Mississippi River the infection struck Wisconsin, where 2,000 plumbing fixture workers in the model factory town of Kohler paraded with flags and pictures of President Roosevelt, demanded more pay, shorter hours, union recognition. Swinging South, strike trouble enveloped Houston, Tex., when a stevedore strike cost the lives of three Negroes...
...Robbins deliberately joined Kohler after cancellation to make a test case. Because Kohler never held a contract, but operated under a subcontract which became effective only two days before Mr. Farley took office, its past record is "clean." Mr. Robbins will resign to save Kohler's face, give it a chance to bid again. But to save the industry's face he is far from done with fighting Mr. Farley...