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...Harvard 1908] was telling me what a great football player he was. He thought he was better than Jim Thorpe in his younger days, and I told him he wasn't." Mr. Bergoff also said they had talked business-the breaking of strikes then in progress at six Remington Rand plants (TIME, June 22). It was in connection with that series of strikes that the NLRB, investigating charges that Remington Rand had coerced employes, fostered company unions and discriminatorily discharged 17 union leaders, had called Pearl Bergoff...
...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...
...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...
...civil liberties committee, again last month when he was set upon by striking seamen (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week he was quickly entered on the Board's books as a "hostile witness." A strikebreaker for 20 years, he had worked for two months last summer at Remington Rand's Middletown, Conn, plant as a $9-per-day-&-expenses "night watchman.'' Asked what references he had offered, "Chowderhead" Cohen grunted: "They never ask for no references in this line of work. Tell 'em anything. Tell 'em nuttin'!" Witness Cohen flushed angrily when asked...