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Last week Mr. Rand descended upon Tonawanda, N. Y., appearing before his striking employes one morning just after police had used nightsticks to break up a scuffle between 100 scabs and 500 pickets. Tonawanda machinery was being crated for Marietta, Ohio, where workers had already capitulated to a $15 bonus offer...
...Supreme Court," read the ballots, "decided that one group of employees cannot dictate to any other workers. . . . Do you wish to strike or do you wish to work?" At Syracuse the ballots also said: "The results of this ballot will determine continued operation of the Syracuse plant." Meantime Remington-Rand instituted one-week annual vacations with...
Sincerely alarmed, Syracuse's Mayor Rolland B. Marvin telephoned Mr. Rand, got his assurance that the Syracuse plant would be reopened, that at least part of its $2,100,000 annual payroll would remain in Syracuse permanently if the workers knuckled down on the discharge of union leaders. Braving a booing, Mayor Marvin put Mr. Rand's terms before the workers. They booed. The Mayor then went to New York to see Mr. Rand, returned to try another ballot. On the strength of some 400 votes the company declared the plant open a week after the closing. Less...
Another city threatened by Mr. Rand was Middletown, Conn., where 900 struck sympathetically. There, plant officials also got machinery ready for shipment. Middletown's Mayor Leo Santangelo received a telegram from President Rand's assistant: "Because you have failed to give protection to honest workers . . . and have allowed radicals to coerce and intimidate them . . . the company has decided that Middletown is not a suitable community in which to carry on operations...
...Well," said he, "I am here and will meet with any of you. I have never refused to meet union representatives. I have always believed in collective bargaining." Nevertheless, Mr. Rand refused to meet the discharged union heads until ''hell froze over...