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...even by implication, with isolationists and Nazi propagandists. It is most unjust in the present case in view of the superhuman efforts of the organization which I head to perform its share of the defense job. In tne December issue of The American Magazine, Donald M. Nelson lists The Maytag Company's defense program among his case histories of "magnificently inspiring voluntary cooperation...
...FEED MAYTAG...
Died. Elmer Henry Maytag, 56, president and son of the founder of the Maytag Co. (washing machines); in Lake Geneva...
...refused all offers of compromise after the union had turned down an offer from him, and 2) demonstrated that the No. 1 industry in a small city is hard for labor to beat. Governor Kraschel was marked for union reprisal because he alternately played the union's and Maytag's games in his campaign for reelection, was consistently helpful to neither side, finally enforced the dismissal of twelve key men in Local 1116, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. Having curried labor votes by declaring martial law and shutting down Maytag as the strikers wished, he last...
After some 1,400 Maytag workers had gone back, it appeared that no one had got much except a lesson in labor relations. The union had lost its strike and taken a wage cut; the company in beating the strike, had not broken the union, had stored up plenty of potential labor trouble for the future. Governor Kraschel had some tall explaining to do to Iowa's labor vote. Rumbled the union president, James B. Carey: "The Governor is doing what he thinks is politically necessary, but we think his position is political suicide...