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This week a labor dispute, already one of the most stubbornly protracted in the nation, still silenced the lathes of Stamford's biggest factory. Yale & Towne, a lock and hardware company founded in 1868 by two Yankee inventors, had been shut down since Nov. 7 by a strike of...
W. Gibson Carey Jr., Yale & Towne president, husband of Founder Henry R. Towne's granddaughter Eleanor, maintained that "a principle of American liberty" was involved. Union Leader Joseph Ficarro, an ex-druggist from The Bronx, insisted that the company had refused to "negotiate in the American way."
End of One Era. Yale & Towne had no union for three-quarters of a century. When the C.I.O. suddenly appeared on the scene, the company fought back in righteous outrage-and with methods which brought down the censure of a federal court. It abandoned production in one branch after a...
No Greyhound busses ran out of Birmingham, no meat was delivered in Albany, no caskets made at the Tennessee Coffin & Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford'...
Impotent Magic. Inside the Town Hall, company, union and city representatives bickered before 200 listeners. The thorniest issues: Yale & Towne's insistence on a return to the open shop; its refusal to offer any increase except one based on overtime. The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a...