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LABOR: Trouble in Paradise

Wisconsin knows Walter Jodok Kohler as its onetime conservative Republican Governor who was a great and good friend of Herbert Clark Hoover. To the U. S. at large, however, he is THE Kohler of Kohler. maker of washstands, bathtubs, plumbing fixtures. He is also the maker of Kohler, the model industrial village which adjoins his large estate and his plant outside Sheboygan.

The town of Kohler, started before the War, looks much like a Midwestern college town. Mr. Kohler built its dormitory-like American Club to house some 300 bachelor workers. Kohler Improvement...

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