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Since every movement has its leaders, the CIO cannot be understood devoid of John Lewis, or the UAW of Wyndham Mortimer. At first Mortimer, an auto worker and ex-miner, was willing to organize the industrial auto workers within the framework of the conservative "craft" orientated American Federation of labor (AFL), despite its resistance. It took Lewis's breakaway Committee (soon to become a Congress) in 1935 to lead the way for the UAW. Under the new CIO umbrella, Mortimer, responding to the auto workers' surge for unity, led the great General Motors sit-down strike...
...tens his life story in a simple, modest account in Organize! My Life as a Union Man. His unique capacity for personalization may fool the reader into discounting Mortimer's role in the UAW. No one should be mistaken: Wyndham Mortimer was a giant of the labor movement. He was so effective an organizer that his so-called allies in labor had to silence him. His fighting spirit shines in Organize! He recalls an incident when he first arrived in Flint, Michigan, to organize the GM plant there and was greeted by a phone threat on his life. "How would...
...circa 1909) and the Transatlantic Review (Paris, circa 1923). He possessed a rare perception of genius in others. The list of writers Ford published early reads like a mail-order come-on to some 20th century great-writers anthology: Conrad, Galsworthy, Pound, E.M. Forster, Hardy, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and a chesty 25-year-old American whom Ford enraged by referring to as "young Hemingway." "Hurray!" H.G. Wells once shouted at a dinner for Ford. "Fordie's discovered another genius! Called D.H. Lawrence...
...Wyndham White stressed that I.O.S. is not insolvent but was simply faced with an inopportune cash shortage caused by too optimistic overexpansion. He assured stockholders that-by "reformulation, restructuring and streamlining"-new management would cut I.O.S.'s inflated operating expenses by 50% by the end of the year. He also maintained that I.O.S. had not done badly at all in the context of the entire mutual fund industry. "I should point out," said Wyndham White, "that from November 1968 to the end of May 1970 the drop in the total assets of U.S. mutual funds was 28%, while...
What I.O.S. needs most is to win back the faith of bankers and investors, and Wyndham White could be the man to do it. Knighted two years ago for distinguished service in international affairs, he was first secretary of the British embassy in Washington during World War II. From 1948 to 1968 he was with the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), serving the last three years as its director general. Then Cornfeld recruited him as a celebrity to bolster I.O.S.'s prestige. Now, said Wyndham White, Cornfeld has "receded into the position of a minority shareholder." Though...