Word: pabco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pabco School. Paraffine Companies, Inc., of San Francisco and points as far east as Philadelphia, as far west as Australia, does a hefty business in roofing, wall board, paints, termite preventives, etc. etc. Its able President William Herman Lowe was astounded two years ago by the news that "Pabco" workers long used to high pay, sick benefits, annual vacations and the like, nevertheless wanted to join "outside" unions. Instead of fighting the trend, he forthwith dissolved Pabco's "company union," required his 1,500 employes in San Francisco and Oakland to join...
Part of an elaborate program instituted to remedy that fault was a school set up by the corporation, but run by and for the unions. Last week 24 students of labor history, economics, business administration, the Wagner Act, other subjects of joint concern to worker & boss graduated from Pabco's school, bade fair to make labor-relations history...
...that one of his lieutenants arranged for San Francisco trades union officials to enroll. Two University of California instructors did the teaching (at the joint expense of the State and the U. S. Department of the Interior, under an arrangement available to but seldom used by other industrialists). Says Pabco's Lowe: ". . . We're willing to hand it to the unions. . . [they] not only increased efficiency in our plant, but they are helping to sell our products. That's what we got out of playing ball with them...
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