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...considered them "successful" or "very successful," only 1% considered them a failure. Through such a plan last year, American Velvet Co. was able to add 24% to its employees' union wages while other textile companies were laying people off. Employees of the Midwest's E. G. Shinner & Co. meat market chain (33 stores) made so much out of profit-sharing that they bought the company. Even when profits turn into losses, the plan pays off. Says Chairman Hugh Comer of Alabama's money-losing Avondale Mills: "Our employees know we are in the red and are really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHARING THE PROFITS: Businessmen Get a New Religion | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

After further appearances at basketball and hockey games, the musicians of the Crimson will display their tuneful wares at a series of concerts in neighboring colleges, and later in the spring hope to make some "extended tours," according to band manager Walter J. Shinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Resurrects Joys of College for Boston Alumni with 'Wintergreen' and Ivy Tunes | 2/20/1947 | See Source »

Most important was a decision on the Norris-LaGuardia Act which sharply limits the power of Federal courts to issue injunctions in labor disputes. A case arose in Milwaukee, when the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butchers Union, an A. F. of L. affiliate, appealed to E. G. Shinner & Co. to hire union workers only. The management refused, the union started picketing, and the company asked for an injunction to forbid picketing. District Judge Ferdinand Geiger decided that no labor dispute existed since no employes of the company were on strike, that therefore the Norris-LaGuardia Act did not apply, granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Those Who Got Slapped | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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