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This week in Washington, Labor Leader Walter Reuther would tell his side of the long-drawn-out Kohler strike to a Senate investigating committee that was hotly divided in its attitude toward the fiery United Auto Workers leader. Democrats would try to protect Democrat Reuther; Republicans were hoping to provoke him into left-wing excesses. Reason: the four-year-old Kohler strike is the nation's major labor-management battleground...
Sheboygan's blighting hatred traces back to April 5, 1954. On that day, United Auto Workers Local 833 went out on strike against Kohler Co., the U.S.'s No. 2 manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, and Sheboygan's No. i employer. That strike is still dragging on, with no end in sight. It is already one of the longest strikes in U.S. history, and it is probably the costliest, whether measured in dollars or human misery...
...ironic that Kohler Co. became an antagonist in the U.S.'s ugliest strike. President Herbert V. Kohler, 66, whose Austrian-born father founded the firm in 1873, considers himself a just and benevolent employer. The Kohlers dreamed the noble but now old-fashioned dream of providing both "bread and roses" for their workers. To house Kohler employees, the company built on the outskirts of Sheboygan a 500-house garden city, with its own schools and recreation facilities. With its handsome, well-built red brick houses and patches of landscaped greenery, this monument to paternalism, incorporated as the Village...
...along with Herbert Kohler's paternalism went a steely sternness and a pride that bristled when his employees heeded outside labor organizers. When Kohler workers who had joined an A.F.L. union struck for recognition in 1934, Kohler hired 400 guards, set out to break the strike. On July 27, 1934, guards fired into a crowd outside the main gate, killing two men and wounding about 40 men, women and children. The strike failed...
...Walter Reuther's U.A.W. finally succeeded in winning from Kohler Co. a skimpy one-year contract. Basis of U.A.W.'s claim to jurisdiction over the workers of a bathroom-fixture company: U.A.W. had a contract with the Briggs Manufacturing Co., which made both auto parts and the kinds of fixtures that Kohler makes...