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Labor's stand: N.A.M. President William Porter Witherow had "broken faith with the President of the United States," was "trying to crawl out" from under the industry-labor pact, which would arbitrate all disputes-including the closed shop...
...Witherow's answer: Industry had never agreed to arbitrate the closed shop...
Management representatives chosen for the council: W.P. Witherow, president of Blaw-Knox and new president of the National Association of Manufacturers; Rubber Executive Cyrus Ching and Shipping Tycoon Roger Lapham (both of the National Defense Mediation Board); General Electric's Charles Wilson; Lawrence Bell (aircraft); W. Gibson Carey Jr. (Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co.); Donald Comer (Avondale Mills); Robert M. Gaylord (Ingersoll Milling Machine Co.); Paul Hoffman (Studebaker Corp.); Charles Hook (American Rolling Mill Co.); Thomas R. Jones (American Type Founders, Inc.); Reuben Robertson (Champion Fiber...
They also knew they could meet the assignment-had already begun to meet it. Said Blau-Knox's William Porter Witherow, new N.A.M. president: "In the first seven months of 1941, American manufacturers sent to England nearly twice as many combat planes as were lost defending the British Isles during the whole preceding year. . . . No matter how frequently the specifications are raised, industry will produce to meet them...
...tycoons had gone home when war was declared. But retiring President Walter D. Fuller and new President Witherow put them on record in a message to President Roosevelt...