Word: remington
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Cauldron. Rare news last week was a move toward industrial peace, made when Remington Rand's hard-boiled President James H. Rand Jr., after defying a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate and bargain with 4,000 of his employes who have been on strike since last May (TIME, March 22), visited Secretary of Labor Perkins in Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor...
When James H. Rand Jr., president of Remington Rand, Inc., ''world's leading manufacturers of office equipment and typewriters," refused to bargain with his unionized employes, they went on strike last May in six of his plants. Soon rugged Mr. Rand was gleefully having described in a bulletin of the National Association of Manufacturers his "Mohawk Valley formula" for breaking strikes. Prime ingredient of the formula was demoralization of strikers and winning of public sympathy by back-to-work movements "operated by a puppet association of so-called 'loyal employes' secretly organized by the employer...
...Board, "the company has exhibited a callous imperturbable disregard of the rights of its employes that is medieval in its assumption of power over the lives of the men and shocking in its concept of the status of the modern industrial worker." Switching their imperturbable disregard to NLRB, Remington Rand spokesmen declared the company would not comply with the Board's reinstatement order but would fight it in the courts...
With quieter eloquence but no less feeling than Senator George Graham Vest displayed in his famed "Tribute to a Dog," Mrs. Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, rich and gracious wife of Remington Arms Co.'s board chairman, declared last week on receiving the Chappel Foundation Plaque for signal devotion to dogdom...
...Government and private conservation agencies preserve and restore the nation's wildlife, the Institute has had backing from arms, sporting goods, automobile and other manufacturers interested in preserving the $500,000,000 business of U. S. hunting & fishing. Its chief accomplishment to date, financed by a $150,000 Remington Arms donation, has been initiation of game breeding research projects in nine agricultural colleges...