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Manufacturing Power: The Organizational Revival of the National Association of Manufacturers, 1941–1945

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 December 2011

Andrew A. Workman
Andrew A. Workman
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ANDREW A. WORKMAN is assistant professor of history atMills College in Oakland, California.
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Abstract

In the years following World War II, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) regained the political effectiveness it had lost during the New Deal. This article analyzes NAM's resurgence within the context of the rising popularity and political strength of organized business in the postwar period. It argues that NAM's success is only partly explained by external factors, such as the policies of Truman administration and divisions among labor organizations. NAM's renewed ability to shape national affairs resulted from an internal transformation that vastly improved its administrative capacity, and from a change in its public relations and labor policies. These efforts came to fruition when NAM proved able to dominate the proceedings of the 1945 Labor-Management Conference.

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Business History Review , Volume 72 , Issue 2: Gender and Business , Summer 1998 , pp. 279 - 317
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1998

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17 Harris, Right to Manage, 108.

18 W. B. Weisenburger to Ira Mosher, 8 Mar. 1945, box 3, file: Committee on labor Relations, 1942–1945, NAM Papers; “Report of Special Labor-Management Committee Meeting,” n.d. box 3, file: Special Drafting Committee, NAM Papers.

19 W. B. Weisenburger, “Analysis of Basic Public Relations Problem Facing NAM,” 13 Jan. 1945, Series 3, box 842, file: NAM Executive Committee, NIIC Papers; W. B. Weisenburger to C. E. Harrison, 19 Jan. 1945, Section 3, box 844, file: Key Documents, 1942–1945, NIIC Papers.

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21 Gable, “A Political Analysis,” 275–279.

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23 C. E. Harrison to Mr. Weisenburger, “Analysis of NIIC Program and Recommendations for 1945,” 12 Oct. 1944 and W. B. Weisenburger, “Points for Discussion with Mr. Wampler,” 29 Jan. 1945, series 3, box 844, file: Key Documents 1942–1945, NIIC Papers.

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25 “Eric Johnston,” Current Biography, 1945; Jack Alexander, “Young Man in a Snakeskin Belt,” Saturday Evening Post, 28 Aug. 1945,10–11. See Johnston, Eric A., America Unlimited (Garden City, N.Y., 1944)Google Scholar, for an overview of his industrial relations ideas.

26 Blaisdell, Donald C., Economic Power and Political Pressures (Washington, D.C., 1941), 25–37Google Scholar. Johnston's corporate liberalism has been dismissed by a number of historians as one, not terribly deep and two, having limited support among other businessmen. Whether or not both assertions are correct, it does not follow that his position was unimportant. He was able to push a liberal program through the Chambers board and to get himself elected its president four years in a row. More importantly, his very advocacy of a deal with labor, if combined with government and union support, was potentially very damaging to the conservatives' position. NAM certainly thought so. See Dubofsky, The State and Labor, 191–193; Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home, 219–220.

27 “Chronology of Chamber of Commerce-NAM Contacts Regarding Labor-Management Relations,” n.d., “Joint Conferences between U.S. Chamber of Commerce Labor Relations Committee and NAM Committee on Labor Legislation Steering Group,” n.d., and “Labor-Management Conference,” box 3, file: Special Drafting Committee, NAM Papers.

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29 “Report of Special Labor-Management Committee Meeting,” n.d.; “Analysis of Seven Points of Proposed Labor-Management Charter,” 25 Apr. box 3, file: Special Drafting Committee, NAM Papers; W. B. Weisenburger to Ira Mosher, 8 Mar. 1945, box 3, file: Committee on Labor Relations, 1942–1945, NAM Papers.

30 Ira Mosher to Eric Johnston, 9 Mar. 1945 and “Chronology of Chamber of Commerce-NAM Contacts Regarding Labor-Management Relations,” n.d., box 3, file: Special Drafting Committee, NAM Papers.

31 New York Times, 29 Mar. 1945.

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33 To Weisenburger, “NAM Action on Management-Labor Charter: Proposed Staff Recommendation,” 5 Apr. 1945, box 20, file: Labor-Management Charter, NAM Papers.

34 Sybyl S. Patterson, “Highlights of March 21st Meeting of Special Board Committee on Labor Relations,” box 20, file: Labor-Management Charter, NAM Papers; “Report of Special NAM Board Committee on Labor-Management Relations,” 16 and 25 Apr. 1945, box 3, file: Special Drafting Committee, NAM Papers.

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49 R. S. Smethhurst to Ira Mosher, 4 Sept. 1945, R. S. Smethurst to Ira Mosher, 12 Sept. 1945, and C. J Symington “Agenda,” 10 Sept. 1945, all in box 20, file: Preconference, NAM Papers.

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54 “What is NAM” (New York, 1946)Google Scholar; T. M. Brennan to State and Industrial Relations Associations, 28 Sept. 1945; T. M. Brennan to Ira Mosher and Walter Weisenburger, 4 Sept. 1945, box 20, file: Labor-Management Conference Correspondence, NAM Papers; “Mr. Mosher's Report to NAM Board of Directors,” 28 Sept. 1945, box 20, file: Preconference, NAM Papers.

55 McQuaid and Harris see the BAC as the leader in forming this program but it appears that NAM was calling the tune. Moreover, the BAC did not launch a full scale campaign to influence the conference, indeed, it did not have the capacity to do so. McQuaid, Big Business and Presidential Power, 138–142; Harris, Right to Manage, 113–114. See also Collins, The Business Response to Keynes, 77–114.

56 Collins, Business Response to Keynes, 117–118, 120–122; “Middle-Roaders,” Business Week, 4 May 1946, 16–17. Johnston's subsequent actions at the conference lead one to assume that the attempt to use his popularity to gain support for a moderate labor relations program was his strategy all along.

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58 W. B. Weisenburger to Mr. Harrison, 1 Oct. 1945, “Meeting of Staff Committee on Labor-Management Conference,” 3 Oct. 1945, “Minutes of Staff Committee Meeting on Labor-Management Conference,” 17 Oct. 1945, Sybyl S. Patterson to Cliff Harrison, 10 Oct. 1945, and “The Public Relations Strategy of the Labor-Management Conference,” n.d., all in box 20, file: Preconference, NAM Papers.

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61 Robert J. Smith Associates, “Radio Presentation of ‘The Management Point of View’,” Dec. 1945, box 20, file: Press Releases, NAM Papers.

62 New York Times, 6 Nov. 1945; “Labor Feuds at Conference Give Management a Trump,” Business Week, 10 Nov. 1945, 7; “Lewis-Murray Feud Blurs Start of Labor-Management Meeting,” Newsweek, 19 Nov. 1945, 70–72; Alfred Friendly, “John L.'s Monkey Wrench,” Nation, 17 Nov. 1945, 514; Bernstein, Barton, “The Truman Administration and Reconversion Wage Policy,” Labor History 6 (Fall 1965): 229–230CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Zieger, Robert, The CIO, 1935–1955 (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1995), 217–218Google Scholar.

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65 “Comments on Deficiencies of Present Committee Reports,” 19 Nov. 1945 and “Executive Committee Minutes,” 19 Nov. 1945, box 19, file: Labor-Management Conference, 1945, NAM Papers; New York Times, 21 Nov. 1945.

66 New York Times, 22 Nov. 1945.

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