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...company cannot insist on a contract guaranteeing a prestrike secret ballot of all workers, union and nonunion. The Borg-Warner division in Wooster, Ohio tried to write such a contract with the U.A.W.-C.I.O.. but the board ruled the clause illegal because a vote by union and nonunion workers would dilute the union's bargaining powers and rights...
Last week the company announced that it will close the plant permanently. It will transfer some carpetmaking to a new, nonunion plant in Greenville, Miss., will continue to run a carpet plant in Philadelphia and two other small mills. The union quickly offered to negotiate on the company's original terms, but it was too late. About all that there was left to do was to arrange for pensions for those eligible (almost half the workers had put in 25 or more years of service). Terming the closing "one of the worst catastrophes that has ever fallen...
...reaching his most sensitive spot -his pocketbook." The I.T.U. carefully picked its own spots, started dailies in twelve towns; in each there was only one newspaper, and its publisher had refused to deal with the union. I.T.U. President Woodruff Randolph not only hoped by competition to force the nonunion papers to recognize I.T.U. but also expected to give jobs to unemployed union members. But his papers lost money, and Randolph found that he was making it tougher for himself than for competing newspaper publishers...
...choosing their Secretaries of Labor, Republican Presidents have followed Woodrow Wilson's precedent by appointing union men, while Democratic Presidents have chosen nonunion men. * When he selected his Secretary of Labor last December, Dwight Eisenhower tried the Republican way, named Martin Durkin, president of the A.F.L.'s plumbers and pipefitters union. It did not work. Durkin, angry because his proposals for amending the Taft-Hartley law had been stalled, quit last month...
Last week President Eisenhower turned his back on the G.O.P. pattern. He appointed a nonunion man, James P. Mitchell, to succeed Durkin. Mitchell, on leave from his job as vice president in charge of personnel and service at Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, has been the Army's assistant secretary for manpower and reserve forces since last April. Big (6 ft., 205 Ibs.) Jim Mitchell has spent most of his life in labor relations, has ironed out serious labor and personnel problems at two of the nation's biggest department stores (see box). Said C.I.O. President Walter...