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...Bowen has had a long and lively career in the Navy. He was chief of its Bureau of Engineering and director of the Naval Research Laboratory before Pearl Harbor. Since then he has been a special assistant and troubleshooter for the Secretary of the Navy, specializing in operating seized, strikebound plants. At 61 he is still one of the youngest, most energetic men in the Navy. Each evening he and his equally energetic wife walk a "fourmile loop in Washington's streets. The Admiral, whose enthusiasms are never halfhearted, has two granddaughters for whom he flatly claims the title...
Next week A.A.R. will put into effect the "100% rule" (not used for coal since strikebound 1922): coal mines must use 100% of the cars they order each day, or have their next day's quota reduced. Crux of the coal problem is that the U.S. has never caught up with the coal lost in last April's 29-day strike.* All through late spring and summer the U.S. Government (from wolf-crying Harold Ickes to sanguine Ralph Budd) urged coal consumers to buy ahead, avoid the fall traffic peak. Yet, in the first seven months of this...
...days Allis-Chalmers had been strikebound. Management's effort to reopen fortnight ago ended in tear-gas attacks, smashed windows, smashed cars, and the ignominious rout of Wisconsin's Governor Julius ("the Just") Heil, who failed as a mediator. The agreement engineered by the Mediation Board provided for a referee with absolute powers to thresh out management-labor relations, protect "union security," nub of the long dispute...
...days the big Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant at West Allis, Wis. had been strikebound. Not a wheel had turned on $45,000,000 of defense orders. Late last week about a third (2,500) of the plant's workers went back to work-at the request of the Navy and OPM }. What effect did this one shutdown have on U. S. defense? Iron Age found that the Allis-Chalmers strike had hampered the work of around 30 firms and projects, more than a third of all defense contracts. The Allis-Chalmers strike had held up work...
Last week President Disston moseyed through his strikebound plant, chatting with watchmen, smiling at a troupe of young kittens tangled up in the heaps of sawdust. He announced that the firm would content itself with presenting engraved Disston 0-95 Masterpiece saws...