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...purporting to be the autobiography of a crack operative who spent 20 years at his trade. Apparently he found it healthy to retire to a Canadian farm to write under his old detective agency designation GT-99. The book was a hair-raising success story of how a good machinist broke into the spy business writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers. In time he got to be a cynical official of the city...
Arthur Orlando Wharton, hardboiled, hard-driving head of the Machinists Union (180,000 members). When Machinist Wharton was 6, his father froze to death in a blizzard. Part Cherokee Indian, he founded what is now A. F. of L.'s powerful Railway Employes' Department. In the 13 years since he fought his way to presidency of Machinists he has upped his union's membership from...
Acting on his latest hunch, Joseph Stalin was busy last week regearing Russia's whole economic machine with a drastic accent on Youth. Only 28 years old and only a candidate for membership in the Communist Party, a machinist named Yakob Yusim had just been promoted straight from the lathe to be director of the Kaganovich Ball Bearing Plant ("Largest in the World") at Moscow, made boss of 20,000 of his former fellow workers. Straight from the cab of his locomotive an engineer named Peter Krivonos, according to Moscow dispatches last week, was promoted manager of the Slaviansk...
...Manager Matthew Brooke married his daughter and Brooke-Barde descendants have owned and operated Birdsboro ever since. Chairman now of the Birdsboro board, which contains six Brookes, is tall, 70-year-old Robert Edward Brooke, grandson of Matthew. President since 1933 has been hard-bitten John Edward McCauley, onetime machinist's apprentice, who states in his hoarse steelman's voice that the C. I. O. "hasn't got us yet" and that Tom Girdler is "doing a yeoman's job for all of us" (see p. 9). With total assets of $2,400,000, Birdsboro employs...
...Paul J. Haldeman; Enno R. Hobbing; David M. Hume; Ward M. Hussey; Richard B. Hutious; Eric W. Johnson; Francis S. Johnson; Whedon Johnson; Boyd N. Jones, Jr.; George M. Kahin, Jr.; George C. Kennedy; Crawford N. Kirkpatrick, Jr.; Christian M. Lauritzon, 2d.; Thomas E. Lawrence; Richard E. Lewis; Burton Machinist; Howard P. Mendel; Raymond Mildenberger; David N. Mills; George W. Naumberg, Jr.; Garrett D. Pagon; Jack M. Perlman; Charles N. Pollak; Joseph Quattrone; Charles A. Robertson; Irwin Ross; William A. Ryan...