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Last week Mr. Rand descended upon Tonawanda, N. Y., appearing before his striking employes one morning just after police had used nightsticks to break up a scuffle between 100 scabs and 500 pickets. Tonawanda machinery was being crated for Marietta, Ohio, where workers had already capitulated to a $15 bonus offer...
Called last month, the strike involved 6,500 workers in six Remington-Rand plants-Ilion, Tonawanda and Syracuse, N. Y., Marietta and Norwood, Ohio and Middletown, Conn. By last week the strike had got down to scabs, scuffles, professional strikebreakers and pitched battles with police. Though President Rand considered it largely the work of Communists, the affair apparently originated last year when the company bought a factory in Elmira...
Leaving a $15 bonus offer for the Tonawanda strikers to think about Mr. Rand went to Ilion, where a committee of citizens from both Ilion and neighboring cities were under the distinct impression that the company had threatened to close their plant, too. Mr. Rand soon had the citizens' committee fighting pickets, and some 1,300 in Ilion went back to work. However, as soon as Ilion went back Tonawanda followed suit...
Loftus Eugene Becker, of Tonawanda, New York, president of the Lampoon, won the position of Ivy Orator, George Caspar Homans, of Boston, a member of the Advocate Board, was chosen Class Poet, and James Rufus Agee, of Rockland, Maine, president of the Advocate, was elected Odist...
Loftus Eugene Becker, of Tonawanda, New York...