Snake Eyes

When two company supervisors at Westinghouse's big Lester (Pa.) jet engine Plant walked into the washroom one morning last fortnight they saw what looked like a clear-cut infraction of a long-standing company rule. Nine men were gathered about a crap game. They were immediately fired. But one of the nine, a gear fitter named Edgar Fulmer protested that he had merely dropped by the washroom, and had never touched the bones. Last week, when the plant supervisor refused to reinstate him, almost 7,000 Westinghouse workers waked out and stopped all production. This week the Plant was closed for the sixth day as both sides argued whether Gear Fitter Fulmer had been gambling or not. Said the union: "The company is using the Fulmer case in in an effort to bludgeon the union and its members into an ineffective apparatus." Said Westinghouse: the company had to stand firm on "a principle you've got to live with forever."

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