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...speech of the week was made in Boston. The subject was the sins of U.S. labor and management. The speaker was Eric Allen Johnston, 47, kinetic, personable president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. To a Founder's Day dinner of Boston University, which had just given him his fourth LL.D., he said...
Free Enterpriser. The Boston speech was only one of twelve that busy Eric Johnston made last week. Both the speech and the week were typical. The speech was an almost electrically fresh restatement of old but much neglected truths. Its impact derived from its clarity, frankness and vigor; from Businessman Johnston's position as head of the traditionally hidebound Chamber, and from his steadily growing personal prestige. Since his election to the Chamber presidency in 1942, he has hopped over the U.S. city by city, to South America, to England, talking constantly at and with businessmen, labor leaders...
Born in Washington, D.C., Eric Johnston came by his faith in individual enterprise in the standard U.S. tradition. His tubercular father moved to Montana, then to Spokane, Wash., then on again, this time leaving his wife and small son to shift for themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service...
Polished Diamond. Eric Johnston may well be the White Knight of U.S. Business. His critics find him just a little too good to be true: too handsome, too smooth, too patently on the make. Like other goodwilling gospelers of "cooperation" he dodges-or does not see-fundamental differences of opinion. In a New York Times Hall debate last week between Johnston and U.A.W.-C.I.O.'s shrewd ideologue, Walter Reuther of Detroit, Reuther proposed that Government continue to regiment business and labor in peace as in war, by a Peace Production Board. Johnston, intent on his gospel of cooperation, failed...
...perhaps Eric Johnston's critics miss his true significance and value. He lays no claim to being a thinker. "You go around talking to people, experiencing new sights and sounds," he says, "and you polish yourself like the facets of a diamond." Eric Johnston is pre-eminently a middleman-a middleman of ideas, a believer in the middle of the road. As such he gets top marks...