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...knowing brows shot up in Manhattan's Hotel Commodore one day last summer at sight of two well-known townsmen in conference over a lunch table in a dark corner. One of them was James H. Rand Jr., brisk, bulky president of Remington Rand, Inc., world's biggest makers of office equipment. The other was gruff, blocky Pearl Louis Bergoff, No. 1 U. S. strikebreaker...
Henry Mill of England patented a typewriter in 1714. The firm of Sholes, Glidden & Soulé developed a practical machine in the U. S. in 1867, and typewriters began to be marketed by Remington in 1874. First U. S. patent on a writing-machine, however, was issued in 1829 to a remarkable man named William Austin Burt. On this device, in March 1830, Inventor Burt whacked out the first letter typewritten in the U.S. Last week the Smithsonian Institution proudly announced that it had acquired and would shortly display this message...
...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...
...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...
...form of a businessmen's committee. The committee understood that if workers returned to work, they could have what jobs were left in the Syracuse plant, held out hopes of a big increase in the Syracuse payroll by autumn. Great was the Syracusans' surprise, therefore, when Remington-Rand issued a statement which explained a great deal about the strike...