Word: rand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent 60 of them., men and women, to Syracuse for Mr. Rand. There, he and one of his lieutenants explained, the missionaries took false names, represented themselves as members of the "Remington Rand personnel department," called at strikers' houses, started whispering campaigns to the effect that the union heads were selling the strikers out, that the plant would be moved out of Syracuse unless the strike was called...
Most indignant was Breaker Bergoff at what happened to some of his men at Remington Rand's Tonawanda, N. Y. plant. Tycoon Rand wanted them to walk through picket lines, thus give loyal employes courage to follow. When the Bergoff huskies tried it, they were showered with bricks. "Rand," recounted Bergoff last week, "kind of put it over on me. I didn't know my men were getting into quite such a dangerous spot. He even wanted me to bring women up there, but I didn't do it, and I'm glad I didn...
...Rand "merely laughed," continued Mr. Bergoff, and explained that everything was fine because he had been inside the plant taking motion pictures of the fracas, which he intended to offer as proof of strikers' violence in seeking an injunction against the strike...
...accusing Mr. Rand of staging this thing?" asked an NLRB attorney...
...accuse him, yes," replied Mr. Bergoff. "But I guess everything's all right. Rand's all right." His pay for the Remington Rand job, he said...