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...Yale & Towne had no union for three-quarters of a century. When the C.I.O. suddenly appeared on the scene, the company fought back in righteous outrage-and with methods which brought down the censure of a federal court. It abandoned production in one branch after a sitdown strike. It sponsored a company union which the International Association of Machinists roundly defeated in a 1942 plant election...
...Toronto University, 60 students staged a sophomorish sitdown in protest against having to travel 50 miles a day to & from applied-science classes at Ajax, Ontario. The strike lasted one hour. In Winnipeg, 124 Tribune and Free Press printers who had struck last November (TIME, Dec. 3) and had subsequently been fired for "absence from work," claimed they were still on strike. But the two papers had long since trained new printers and were publishing regularly...
...positive power-seizure and operation of struck plants. Thus Lew Schwellenbach was left with the slender tools of conciliation and persuasion; at week's end the tools were not doing the job. Labor troubles were breaking down the industrial machine more ominously than they had done since the sitdown strikes...
...Camden, N.J., 4,000 workers staged a sitdown strike at the New York Ship building Corp., went back to work when the U.S. Navy stepped...
...Reuther, boss of the union's G.M. division, and master strategist of the union, who blueprinted the attack on G.M. A onetime tool and diemaker at Ford's, he had learned his strategy in the sitdown strikes of the '30s which had finally brought G.M. to sign a union contract. Since then all union activities pertaining to G.M., such as organizing, bargaining, etc., have been his bailiwick. Ironically, he fathered G.M.'s umpire plan to settle union grievances which kept wartime strikes in G.M. plants lowest in the industry...