Word: remington
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much in the news last week was James Henry Rand Jr., bulky president of Remington-Rand Inc., world's biggest maker of office equipment. He became Samuel Insull's first big radio customer, putting on a news program over the new Affiliated Broadcast Co. network (TIME, Feb. 24). He reported a $3,000,000 profit for his fiscal year through March, a whopping increase over the $1,750,000 earned the year before. And he settled to his satisfaction one of the most curious strikes in the history of U. S. Labor...
Called last month, the strike involved 6,500 workers in six Remington-Rand plants-Ilion, Tonawanda and Syracuse, N. Y., Marietta and Norwood, Ohio and Middletown, Conn. By last week the strike had got down to scabs, scuffles, professional strikebreakers and pitched battles with police. Though President Rand considered it largely the work of Communists, the affair apparently originated last year when the company bought a factory in Elmira...
...Elmira deal worried the 1,700 workers in the Syracuse factory, which makes Remington portable typewriters. Rumors flew that the company planned to close down in Syracuse, move the portable division to Elmira. Union leaders wrote to President Rand, got no answer for a month. Then Mr. Rand's secretary answered that no plans had been made for Elmira...
...March issue of The American Spectator reveals the sinister connection between your company and J. P. Morgan & Co. and how your radio program is under the sway of those fascists, Remington Rand...
...party included Technical Director William Irving Westervelt of Sears, Roebuck; President Frederick Beck Patterson of National Cash Register; President Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler; President Alvan Tracy Simonds of Simonds Saw & Steel; President James Henry Rand Jr. of Remington Rand. There were executives from International Harvester, Coca-Cola...