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...back on the coming of peace. Unionizing drives ran smack into ancient prejudices. The battle at Bethlehem was only a skirmish in C. I. O.'s long effort to organize that company. Trouble started last week when an election of officers to the Employes' Representation Plan (which NLRB declared to be a company-dominated union) was flaunted in the faces of C. I. O. steelworkers. The Washington News commented: "Both sides ... are to blame, the union chiefly for its violent tactics. But this is a defense strike in which we feel that a major portion of the blame...
...must do so only after careful reflection. It is the considered opinion of the executive council that the demands of the SWOC for the establishment of legitimate collective bargaining should be met by the Bethlehem management. The elimination of the company union, which has been condemned by the NLRB, will end the strike more quickly and equitably than Governor James' storm troopers...
Most of the limbs on Henry Ford's tree have been lopped off-one of the last ones by the Supreme Court. An NLRB ruling that Mr. Ford had violated the Wagner Act was upheld by the Circuit Court. The Supreme Court declined to review the case when Ford appealed. About the only limb left was delay. Toward that limb Mr. Ford was edging. Said his hardfisted, right-hand man, Harry Bennett: "If the NLRB orders an election, of course we will hold one, because Mr. Ford will observe the law. C. I. O. will win it, of course...
Near midnight, Knudsenhillman called newsmen to Knudsen's office, in weary triumph announced the terms of a truce. The union's first two demands would be met. As for an election, OPM and NLRB would explore the possibilities. Heavy with fatigue, arm-in-arm, Knudsenhillman shuffled home...
Three other Ford appeals from NLRB decisions remained in lower courts: the same discrimination issue in cases at Dallas and Buffalo; and a Long Beach, Calif, case in which the issue is a company union...