Cyrus S. Ching: pioneer in industrial peacemaking; as a manager, and later as a government executive, Ching pointed the way to a cooperative system of labor relations by showing that differences are much more easily resolved when reason, rather than rancor, prevails.
From: Monthly Labor Review
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Date: 8/1/1989
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Author: Raskin, A.H.
Cyrus S. Ching: pioneer in industrial peacemaking
Through much of America's rise to greatness as an industrial power, mistrust and misunderstanding have been dominant characteristics of relations between employers and organized labor. Most managements viewed attempts by unions to represent their workers as mischievous intrusions, destructive of the interests of company and employee alike. That attitude found expression in tactics so hostile to unionization that many of the ...
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