Word: non-union
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...employes of The Maytag Co. are striking against a pay cut (TIME, July 25), Governor Kraschel had declared martial law, closed the recently reopened Maytag plant. Reason: Maytag rejected a settlement proposed by Kraschel arbitrators, started the plant against the Governor's wishes, precipitated fighting between non-union and C. I. O. men. While Kraschel troopers ruled Newton and the Governor garnered much labor support in his campaign for reelection, NLRB Examiner Madison Hill heard testimony that Maytag, local authorities and Judge Homer A. Fuller wanted to smash...
...closed-shop contract which A. F. A. signed last year with the bankers with whom his ancestral tents were then in pawn. Mr. North retorted that Mr. Whitehead had stubbornly declined to face depression facts. Meantime, shrewd Mr. North was reported preparing a neat finesse. To the Ringling-owned, non-union Al G. Barnes-Sells-Floto Circus in the West would go such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the wire-walking Naittos, the Flying Concellos, perhaps Mr. Buck. With them would go the Ringling Big Top, upping the smaller show's capacity from...
...employers the country over wondered whether, for example, the Cotton-Textile Institute might some day be compelled to deal for all its members, unionized and nonunionized, with C. I. O.'s Textile Workers Organizing Committee; or the American Iron and Steel Institute, including President Tom Girdler's non-union Republic Steel Corp., with Steel Workers Organizing Committee. NLRB spokesmen declared the West Coast situation was unique, said no such precedent had been established...
...Steel's Birmingham and Chicago plants were for the first time lowered to the Pittsburgh level. Announced reason for the change: "Increased production facilities and greater diversification of products" in these two steel centres. To the steel trade, however, it meant that Big Steel, sniped at by non-union independents since it made a wage contract with C.I.O. and pinched by their price concessions had finally abandoned its long time policy of playing ball, was going to squeeze them a little, possibly gaining in competitive advantage something to make up for the price...
...fines up to $5,000, imprisonment up to ten years. Inasmuch as the Wagner Act is a civil law entailing no such penalties for denial of the right to join a union, success in the Harlan case would give the NLRB a telling threat against many a potent, non-union industrialist...