Imperial Valley press., 1937-03-22
News Behind the News
Plenty of Background Madame
Perkins Plots q Conference =.
A Target for NLRB :.

WASHINGTON.-There was plenty OF back
ground behind the conference which Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins arranged with James
H. Rand, Jr, after employing the unique me-
thod of advertising for him in the newspapers
Rand is the president of Remington Rand
Inc, which manufactures and sells typeWrlterS
and office equipment. Three years ago, appear
ing before congressional committee against
the securities bill, Rand introduced the subSe-
quently exploded charges of DR.. William A
Writ Those charges accused New Deal BRAIN
trusters of plotting revolution.
Now, Rand has been made the target of the
National Labor Relations Board After long
litigation and hearings the board finds that
1000 of 5000 striking Remington Rand employees
still on strike despite or due TO, RandS
ruthless methods" and his companyS grim
determination not to bargain collectively with
the unions representing these employees, but to
settle the issues by force"
1t finds the company guilty OF violating var
ious categories of the Wagner act.
1t orders reinstatement of the 1000, and fur
ther orders that these workmen be paid what
ever is necessary for them to move to the
new locations of factories which the company
transferred to other towns as part OF Its antl-
union campaign. .s.f.-.
The Supreme Courts decision as to consti-
tutionality of the Wagner act thus will be of
major interest to Mr.. Rand and the 1000 en-
ployeS The labor board has ordered him to
bargain collectively with the union as sole
representative of employees in his plants at Syr-
acuse, Tonawanda North Tonawanda, Lion and
Elmlra, all in New YORK, In MldQletoWn, CONN.,,
and Marietta, o. The company is also ordered
to reinstate numerous discharged union leaders,
with back pay.
Rand, with the assistance of a publicity agent
and lawyer, personally directed the work of
breaking the strike caused by his refusal to
confer with the union, according to the board,
and the company rejected offers of mediation
made by governors state industrial commission
ers, mayors, state mediation boards and federal
conciliators. Rand, the board says, deliberately
misled by false statements and evaSions those
who attempted to mediate the strike"
through employe groups, backed by thugs mas
querading as employees" says the report. Com
munities alegedly were terrorzed into antistrike
campaigns by threats TO move plants away. In
some instances the threats were carried out
While threatening to move its Norwood and Syr-
acuse plants to lion, the board says, the COM
pany had "for Sale" sign on its Ilion plant
as part of the propaganda technique.
When other tactics failed, The board charges
the company hired thousands of strikebreakers,
describing them to the public as loyal en-
ployes" -Four strikebreaking agencies were en-
ployed-incuding Bergoff E
Scenes of disorder and violence, to be de-
scrbed to the public as riots, the boards deci-
sion says, were deliberately staged by agents
of the company that the framed violence
could later the basis for injunctons
against the unions, requests for police protec-
ton and law and order trades in the press