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...sooner had John Lewis lumbered back to the showers than the C.I.O. danced into the ring. Last week it began its impatient fight for a second round of wage boosts. It was armed with a 71-page "report" for which it had paid Robert R. Nathan Associates, Inc. $12,000. Nathan's simple conclusion, which neatly fitted the C.I.O. strategy, was that management could indeed pay higher wages-and without raising prices...
Planner, Inc. The name-Nathan-was familiar. Shortly after V-J day in 1945, Robert R. Nathan & his colleagues in OWMR predicted that there would be 8,000,000 unemployed in the U.S. before spring, 1946. Later he recommended a general wage increase. He said wages could go up without boosting prices. He was wrong in his prediction. There was no noticeable employment slump. And wages went up, but so did prices in a rising spiral of inflation...
...Nathan's experience as a businessman is limited, although he started early enough; at eight he ran a newspaper route. Later he sold silk stockings to help himself through the University of Pennsylvania. From there, he went directly into the Government, where he burgeoned as a New Deal statistician. He advocated all-out production before the war when even the Army was still moving with caution...
...large, youngish (37) man who looks something like a more alert Primo Carnera, he likes to wrestle playfully with friends and pull out their neckties. He became a rabid planner. Last winter, with the general exodus of planners from the Truman Administration, Nathan also left and organized the Robert R. Nathan Associates...
...first full-dress reply of business to the report of economist Robert Nathan (which C.I.O. President Philip Murray said would be used as a guidepost in C.I.O. wage demands in steel, automobile and electrical manufacturing industries) was made by William K. Jackson, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...