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...Francisco, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. finally accepted the master contract which all other major West Coast shipbuilding yards had signed. A.F. of L. machinists ended their 47-day strike, went to work for the $1.12-an-hour wage set by the master agreement. C.I.O. machinists voted to follow suit. San Francisco shipyards got into full-time production of $500,000,000 worth of naval building...
Hell froze over last week in Detroit. Henry Ford's director of personnel, Harry Bennett, predicted three months ago: "We will bargain until hell freezes over, but they [C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers] won't get anything." Mr. Bennett was talking about a union contract. Last week, Mr. Bennett signed his name to a document that gave U.A.W. not only all it asked for but just about everything a union man dreams about...
...signing this contract, Ford not only reversed its labor policy but outdid both General Motors and Chrysler, neither of which has granted union shops. Said Edsel Ford: "No half measures will be effective. ... So we have decided to go the whole way." One thing was certain: the most important member of the "we" was 77-year-old Henry Ford. There were many conflicting theories about what had moved...
Happy over a contract that virtually sewed up the whole motor industry, exultant over Mr. Ford's whole-hog capitulation, U.A.W. officials declared: "Agreement by the Ford Motor Co. to establish a union shop sets a pattern for the industry which, we believe, will be universally adopted before the end of another year...
...makes refrigerator and furniture hardware, has cut down from three shifts to one, faces complete shutdown as zinc rationing tightens. Its general manager, Samuel Strasser, has been to Washington for defense business, has written to hundreds of prime contractors. Only result: an invitation from Detroit's Defense Contract Service office to bid on two British fuses. Yet the company has 200 machine tools (only eight of them usable for the fuses), a trained engineering staff, 16 tool & die makers, plenty of plant space for defense work...