In recent weeks the six-month strike at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.'s big plant in West Allis, Wis. had worn thin.* A back-to-work campaign had drawn about 3,000 of the approximately 10,000 workers into the plant, past the small groups of pickets of the Communist-led Local 248 of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers. A-C's up-from-office-boy President Walter Geist (TIME, June 10) was winning with his strategy of playing for time. (Strikes in five other Allis-Chalmers plants had been settled with the hallowed 18½¢ wage increase, but without the union shop which Local 248 insists on.)
Last week, after A-C had...
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