Word: thuma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Chrysler's President Kaufman Thuma Keller, gravely and truly: "The settlement should have been made without the loss of a single day's pay on the part of our employes, or the loss of a single automobile sale on the part of our dealers." Then why this costly shutdown? No strike, no lockout, it was a cessation of work which followed when the contract between Chrysler and its C. I. O.-unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides haggled...
Chrysler's chunky President Kaufman Thuma Keller stayed away from most of the conferences in Detroit last week. He could not abide the taunts of U.A.W.'s keg-headed Richard Frankensteen, who continually brings up the story that back in the bad old non-union days, Chrysler planted a spying boarder in the Frankensteen home. But Mr. Keller's able, labor-wise Vice President Herman Weckler, negotiating with "Durable Dick" Frankensteen and his boss, U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas, actually seemed to be getting somewhere. Within sniffing distance was settlement, re-employment of 58,000 idle Chrysler...
...executives tempered by Chrysler: men like B. E. Hutchinson, Fred M. Zeder, Joe Fields. Their fingers were on the controls of every part of Chrysler Corp.'s complicated mechanism. And in the president's paneled office on the fifth floor of the Highland Park plant sat Kaufman Thuma Keller, the same "K. T." who had made the night foray on the Dodge plant eleven years...
...Chrysler expound the theory of more jobs, better ways of mass production, a theory which the President had disavowed in his Jefferson Day speech. Last week Chrysler Corp. reinforced its founder's precept with examples by announcing a 5% wage increase for all Chrysler workers. Pointedly President Kaufman Thuma Keller hinted that in the case of Chrysler employes, at least, the benefits of mass production had not reduced their purchasing power. In the last three years Chrysler has boosted wages three times, beginning with a 20% increase in August...
...Three. Meanwhile, the Big Three have grown bigger & better. Chrysler, which last summer moved Walter P. Chrysler to the chairmanship and elevated Kaufman Thuma Keller to the presidency, made $18,000,000 in the first six months of 1935. nearly twice its earnings for the full year of 1934. Nine-month sales for the Chrysler group totaled 488,625 cars, about a 40% increase over the 1934 period and about 23% of all U. S. sales. The stock has been a big favorite in the current bull market. On April 1. 1935 it sold at, 34, closed last week...