Word: nonunionized
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...after twelve years of walking up & down outside Petersen's, 69-year-old picket Orr's tour of duty finally came to an end. Dealer Petersen agreed to go along with an agreement signed by the Chevrolet Dealers Association and the union, and urge his few remaining nonunion mechanics to join up. Said Petersen: "I didn't care much one way or another." Orr, who reckoned that he had paced off 40,000 miles in twelve years, had worn out two signs and two dozen pairs of shoes. Said he: "Everybody was always nice...
UNIONIZED New England textile companies will not find it so easy to move to the nonunion South following a National Labor Relations Board ruling last week. It ordered Mount Hope Finishing Co., which closed its North Dighton, Mass, plant after the C.I.O. Textile Workers won an election two years ago (TIME, Nov. 19, 1951), to rehire 690 employees it had laid off, give them traveling expenses to jobs in Mount Hope's new plant in Butner, N.C., and pay back wages of almost...
Instead of asking for a wage increase, said Moody, the Mine Workers should give southern operators lower rates than northern operators. Otherwise, warned Moody, the operators have the choice of either going nonunion or going broke...
...A.F.L. hosiery workers in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Wisconsin broke the trend, took a 15% to 25% cut. If they had refused, chances were that the 29 mills where they work would close down. Northern hosiery manufacturers have been hard hit by competition from the South's predominantly nonunion mills. With the wage cut, the northern companies are hopeful that they can compete again. Said one unionist: "We don't like this. But it is a matter of survival for the northern unionized mills...
...Secondly, we are playing only in nonunion theaters-here in the clubhouse, and on the road. Third, we just can't afford to pay for union labor. It can mean the difference between breaking even and losing...