Word: stretch-out
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...cordially disliked by organized labor because he (1 heads an agency for strikebreakers, 2 is chairman of Republic Steel Corporation, 3 called out the militia in a textile strike, 4 is a friend of the DuPonts, 5 invented an efficiency unit system which workers regard the same as '"stretch-out" or "speed...
...only as the proprietor of the Chateau de Cande where the Duke and Duchess were married last June and as the inventor of something called the "Bedaux hour."* To U. S. Labor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux is not mysterious at all. Labor regards the Bedaux hour as synonymous with the "stretch-out" and "speed-up," considers Efficiency Expert Bedaux, whose system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate blast from the labor press which Efficiency Expert Bedaux began by ignoring. Apparently concerned mostly with the fact...
United Textile Workers' Vice President Francis J. Gorman had been growling for weeks over the failure of some millowners to live up to the agreements on rehiring strikers and mitigating the "stretch-out" which ended last autumn's textile strike. When NLRB last week authorized certain mills to reduce machine and man hours by 25%, Leader Gorman cried. ''The stage is set for another strike...
...have secured an end to the stretch-out," claimed Leader Gorman. But the Winant report specifically stated that "it is not feasible at this time to evolve any general formulas" for regulating the stretch-out. An impartial board of three was to examine stretch-out problems in plants specified by Labor's representative and the Code Authority...
...South the strike for a 30-hour work-week at 40-hour pay, elimination of the stretch-out and union recognition, seemed to have reached its peak, settled down into an endurance contest. South Carolina strike leaders called off their "flying squadrons" of picketers, and most strikers stayed home. Important mills in the Carolinas bristled with bayonets. In Georgia, Governor Eugene Talmadge declared martial law, whipped up a "flying squadron" of his own-National Guardsmen who arrested and interned some 200 pickets, took control of troubled districts. The strike in the South remained roughly 40% effective...