I have followed the Kohler Company's struggle with the United Automobile Workers Union for years, as stage after stage of the dispute has demonstrated the things that have gone wrong in the labor policy of the United States. But its full value as a textbook illustration of the defects of our labor policy was not complete until August 26, 1960, when the National Labor Relations Board handed down its decision on the charges brought by the UAW against the company. With that decision, the dispute acquires an historic significance, for now it points up in a dramatic way all the principal shortcomings of our present labor policy
