Word: auto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the passage of time the number of strikes which feature the newspaper headlines becomes increasingly numerous, Toledo being the latest storm center, where several thousand workers at the Electric Auto Lite Company have staged a walkout and picketed the factory. The Toledo strike, however, introduces a new note in the wave of protest by organized labor concerning wages, which has been sweeping the country with mounting force since the organization of N.R.A...
...scene. Mercury to the masses, purveyor of cheap speed on land and in the air, his spectacular rise has been accomplished in the 15 years since he was a Moon auto salesman in Chicago with a $35 weekly drawing-account. So many Moons did he sell that his 5% commissions brought in about $30,000 a year, netted him $100,000 with which he bought out wobbly Auburn Automobile Co. Youngest motorcar company president in the U. S. at 30, he built up a quick fortune which he expanded by, acquiring Duesenberg and a few companies manufacturing accessories. Until...
...named it for Gabriel's trumpet. He later devised an ingenious contraption using a spring in a box to take up an automobile's road bounce. He called it a snubber, called his company Gabriel Manufacturing Co., now Gabriel Co., maker of shock absorbers and other auto accessories. Founder Foster (now retired) long paid Ohio's biggest income tax, in one year...
Incidentally, the pending Wagner bill lists a good many unfair practices with respect to employers but says nothing of unfair practices by labor organizers. If there is to be new legislation on this subject, undoubtedly it will not be one-sided. The controversy in the auto industry has settled that point. As a matter of fact, there is no real need for rigid statues. The famous collective bargaining provision known as 7A in the National Industrial Recovery Act was specific enough until questions of good faith entered into its interpretation...
Stripped of all the camouflage, both sides in the auto controversy really won important points, which is a very fortunate way for a dispute to end. Only in this case it was not a patched up compromise designed to alleviate a temporary situation. It went to the fundamentals and almost overnight straightened out something that has been holding back the whole recovery movement in America...