Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1943, C.I.O.'s United Electrical Workers complained to the Navy of a production slowdown at Norden's New York plant. Corrigan, Naval production-management boss for both plants, investigated and exonerated Norden. Then, the indictment charged, Corrigan persuaded Norden officials to hire his firm, with which he had supposedly severed all ties when he was commissioned. The fee: $104,000. As a result of Corrigan's recommendations, the Navy took over the Remington plant and turned it over to Norden...
...these reasons, coupled with the fact that Grumman workers are the fourth highest paid in the U.S. aircraft industry, and are ruggedly individualistic Long Island clamdiggers, chicken farmers, etc., no union is making any serious attempt to organize Grumman. The company has never had a strike or a slowdown. It has handled the explosive race problem just as smoothly, now has some 600 Negroes in all types of jobs. Worker morale is so good that Grumman can always strain production in emergencies. When the Navy lost an unexpected number of planes on Guadalcanal, Swirbul rallied the workers on a weekend...
...Slowdown after Victory. The slowdown punctuated what was still a crashing Allied victory in Italy. Already General Harold R.L.G. Alexander's armies had cut down the German forces by 80,000 to 100,000 dead, wounded and captured. Even last week when the enemy threw in all the mines, road blocks, and mobile artillery he could muster, when he had committed eight and a half of his twelve divisions in Italy, the Allies still made gains...
Said U.S. Lieut. Colonel G. H. McCaffrey: "The people in southern Italy . . . are definitely opposed to the Badoglio Government. . . . There is a continual slowdown in all work. . . . Officials appointed by us have been replaced with Fascists, and some removed by us for Fascist views have been reinstated. There is still graft, resulting in looting of food." Fascist youth organizations have reappeared under new names. Italians have come to distrust their liberators. The Allies seem to be losing both prestige and popularity...
...sseldorf, after a one month's work stoppage, is again a manufacturing center. The R.A.F's return last week to Cologne, as thoroughly blitzed as any German city, implied acknowledgement either that reconstruction had been effective or that worthwhile targets remained intact. Net conclusion: a general slowdown of Germany's total war effort was as much as could be credited to heavy bombing, and it was probably worth the effort expended. To expect more, from the number of planes allocated to European bombing, was to expect too much...