National Affairs: Unionizer Promoted

Having said a glad good-by to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady last fall quit his $9,000-a-year Government job, went to work for Radio Corporation of America as labor relations director at $20,000 a year. Last week RCA's board upped him to vice president, for a reason that in times past would have more often resulted in a labor director's being fired than promoted. In nine months he had transformed RCA from a non-union to an almost wholly union shop. Long famed as a mediator, Mr. McGrady had...

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