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Hope this is the last time you will read the following announcement: the YEAR BOOK will be out next week. The reason why it is late is that the editors had a little trouble with the printer. It seems the foremen in the shop are unionizing and so--. No, nothing else...
Somehow the U.S. had not been able to work up any real rage over the latest wave of strikes. The Detroit foremen's strike, which made 60,000 men idle, had been knocked in the head quickly when the Air Forces Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, told the War Labor Board at a public hearing that the Air Forces had lost 250 Mustang fighters through the strike. But the strike brought few letters to editors, and few editorial cartoons. Below the level of Washington bigwigs, no one seemed outraged...
Ford Motor Co. last week finally made up its mind about the question roiling Detroit (TIME, May 15): are foremen laborers or an arm of management? By signing a contract with the aggressive Foreman's Association of America, an independent union, Ford answered: foremen are laborers. This was the first formal contract which the two-and-a-half-year-old union had won from management...
...contract omitted the closed shop and checkoff which spry old Henry Ford had granted U.A.W.-C.I.O. But the company recognized the F.A.A. as bargaining agent for its 9.000 foremen, hoped that the contract "will produce better relations between the company and the foremen...
...members continued on strike for union recognition. War production slumped, in some cases 50%, as workers floundered about without supervision. While the National Labor Relations Board and the War Labor Board debated on how they should treat F.A.A., Packard shut down and sent its 39,000 workers home. With foremen missing, Army inspectors feared faulty workmanship and refused to accept any more Packard motors (Rolls-Royce motors for Mustang fighters. Mosquito bombers). In stubborn anguish the potent Automotive Council for War Production (which includes all auto-makers), warning in large newspaper ads that recognition of the foremen's union...