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...battle began back in 1937. Washer, a $165 trust-department clerk, campaigned to unionize the bank workers -7,200 of them in 494 branches...
...months later he was transferred to Chico, Calif, (pop: 5,500) over his protests that it was "Siberia." The bank also wrangled with its intransigent clerk over a $15.12 expense account (the bank eventually paid). Soon Clerk Washer was fired. The NLRB ordered him reinstated...
Edward Crandle Washer, 40, of Los Angeles is a stubborn David who declared war on the Goliath-sized Bank of America seven years ago. By last week he was close to winning...
...bank issued a sharp, 64-word statement (which Washer later quoted in his complaint): "We cannot see how this institution could possibly reinstate anybody who had admittedly falsified his expense account . . . been guilty of flagrant insubordination, who called inhabitants of the community in which he was working 'yokels' and 'country bumpkins' and labeled the town 'Siberia.' " The bank fought up to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost (thereby establishing the right of bank employes to organize under the Wagner Act), finally reinstated Washer with $5,503 in back pay. Washer then sued the bank...
...part, and surely it is wisdom to cut this out and tie in a stronger piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson gadgets. One of them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving the stands in opposite directions. Another convenience was a bedroom directly over a dining room so rigged that the owner could descend through the floor into a dining...