Robert Fechner
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 152 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5121-3802-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Fechner (22 March 1876 - 31 December 1939) was a national labor union leader and director of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933–39), which played a central role in the development of state and national parks in the United States. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With only an public school elementary education he had risen to become an American labor union leader and vice president of the International Association of Machinists. He had a reputation for fairness, tact, and patience in all his dealings. On 5 April 1933 he was appointed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be the Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). It was Fechner's fairness and ability for organization and administration that impressed the president to his appointment as director. Although he had been an important labor figure, Fechner objected attempts for union organizers to form unions among CCC enrollees in the camps. He felt that the government...