Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding. When Charles Luckman, 37-year-old president of Lever Bros. (Lux, Spry, Pepsodent), rose up in Chicago's Stevens Hotel last week to address the Super Market Institute, nearly every word cut.
U.S. business, said soft-voiced, hard-minded Chuck Luckman, deserved its reputation for being opposed to "everything that spells greater security, wellbeing, or peace of mind for the little guy." Why? "Well, we declared war on collective bargaining . . . battled child-labor legislation . . . yipped and yowled against minimum-wage laws . ....
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