KENOSHA, A MODEL FOR GREEN AND LEWIS
Kenosha, a Model For Green and Lewis From THE NEW YORK POST AFL and CIO unions In Kenosha, Wis., an industrial city, have found ft way to have labor peace. They simply have It and always have had,...
...When the division came, leaders of the various unions here said in effect: "What have we got to fight about...
...All the unions join in publication of the Kenosha Labor, a weekly newspaper...
...There'll be no raiding, no cross-picketing, any more than there ever was...
...We made a success of working together, let's jast keep it up...
...They arc still happy about the way things are going Said Felix Olkivcs, public relations director of the Kenosha Manufacturers Association: "The labor unity has contributed much to Industrial peace and strengthened the confidence of employers and the general public in labor uniom...
...The bosses, who had been hearing about the troubles of employers elsewhere, sighed with relief...
...Chamber of Commerce: "Kenosha is doing pretty well with labor united...
...Only one factory has no union contract...
...THERE arc approximately 7.000 union members here—5,000 in the AFL and 2,000 in the CIO...
...From a community and industrial standpoint specific affiliation of labor unions is of no paramount importance...
...Better yet, if they'd both take a year's vacation in Australia, for instance (with full pay, of course), they might come back and find that union men all over the country had done the same thing wc did here...
...The important thing is that there be no civil war between local unions...
...What more could a business man want of his community than that its labor should thrive in peace, its business prosper, its industry flourish and its farmers reap the benefits of a healthy, harmonious community...
...HAROLD B. WOODLIEF, secretary of t.i...
...There isn't anything complicated about it, leaders of the two groups explained...
...They simply have It and always have had, because they never thought there was anything to fight about...
...It is the MacWhite Co., which has a profit-sharing plan and an independent union...
...Said one of them: "If William Green and John L. Lewis would come here and spend a week visiting meetings of AFL and CIO unions they might learn a* lot about union men...
...We have the highest per capita wages in Wisconsin, the highest percentage of home owners, the highest percentage of children finishing public school and the second highest farm income...
...We'll just devote ourselves to organizing the unorganized and to bargaining for our members...
...The members work side by side in factories...
...This unity exists in a city where labor alreaoy was 95 per cent organized before the AFL-CIO split...
...The Trades and Labor Council (holding an AFL charter) admits CIO delegates to its meetings...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
