Unionizer Promoted

Having said a glad good-by to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady last fall quit his $9,000-a-year Government job, went to work for Radio Corporation of America as labor relations director at $20,000 a year. Last week RCA's board upped him to vice president, for a reason that in times past would have more often resulted in a labor director's being fired than promoted. In nine months he had transformed RCA from a non-union to an almost wholly union shop. Long famed as a mediator, Mr. McGrady had negotiated contracts covering 8,000 manufacturing employes at Camden, N. J., land radio communications workers, sound effects men. Contracts are about to be signed for actors, singers, announcers. After an NLRB election determines whether marine communications workers prefer A. F. of L. or C. I. O., Negotiator McGrady may relax, mind the union p's and q's of 25,000 RCA employes.

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