Everyone remembers the Montgomery Ward strike in 1944, when rock-ribbed Chairman Sewell Avery was carried out of his plant in the arms of G.I.s after the company was seized by the Government. Last week in Chicago, as an aftermath of that fight, Municipal Judge Joseph B. Hermes ordered the company to pay $250,000 in injunction damages to the C.I.O. United Mail Order, Warehouse & Retail Employees, plus $77,000 in lawyers' fees. It was the largest such award ever made.
The judgment stemmed from an injunction that the company sought in 1943 against the union's weekly paper, which was attacking Ward's...