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Chicago's union-hating S. Buchsbaum & Co. (jewelry, plastics) had busted one union in 1919, defeated another after a 16-week strike in 1935. It had hired detectives to sniff out any traces of unionism, had fired employes if they even had a relative who was a union member. That was Buchsbaum's record when in 1941 it signed up with Local 241, International Chemical Workers Union, A.F.L. Since then Buchsbaum has had not a single strike or work stoppage. Relations with employes have been so cordial that an arbitrator has never even been called...
...Unions. The man responsible for the new labor policy is President Herbert Jerome Buchsbaum, 48, plump, energetic owner of the company, who inherited it, along with its anti-union policy, from his father, Samuel. In his youth, son Herbert had been given many an anti-union lesson, used them to break the strike in 1935 after he took over the company...
...Herbert Buchsbaum was convinced that there was nothing good about unions. Says he: "Nothing happened between 1935 and 1940 to change the way I felt. . . . But while I stayed the same, the world around me changed." One change: the Wagner Act. Once more, in 1941, the union called a strike...
...Violence. Buchsbaum, who thought all labor leaders were racketeers, was first impressed when union president Samuel Laderman prevented violence when strikebreakers drove a car through pickets. He was further impressed when a friend whose plant Laderman had unionized told him "that Sam was a real human being. He liked opera. He disliked fights...
...Chicago's S. Buchsbaum & Co. was turning out a $12.50 vacuum feed ball pen, "The Style King Magic Flow," hoped to sell 150,000 this year...