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...some strange partners. The C.I.O. Autoworkers' Boss Walter Reuther and other auto-union leaders sat with General Motors' President Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson, Michigan's Governor Mennen Williams and top auto executives. Across the table sat mobilization Directors Charles Edward Wilson and Manly Fleischmann. The automen, union officials and governor had teamed up to protest cutbacks in auto production...
...soon. Word got out that he plans to cut auto output from 1,000,000 cars in the first quarter of 1952 to 800,000 cars in the second. Furthermore, Fleischmann would give automakers only enough copper for 640,000 cars. If the new slash goes through, said the automen, unemployment in the industry would double. Said G.M.'s "Engine Charlie" Wilson: "It would amount to a political, economic and social crime...
...Plymouth has an average of only three cars a dealer, Oldsmobile 3.5, and Buick 3. Instead of waiting for Big Three models, many customers are buying from Nash, Studebaker and Hudson, whose sales are up as much as 47%. Even used-car dealers have begun to feel the change. Automen do not expect the sellers' market to ease up. They expect to produce 4,500,000 cars in 1952. Estimated demand...
...first two months of 1951, automakers turned out 986,000 cars, v. 876,000 in 1950 (when the Chrysler strike cut production). Thus the steel cut-and the reductions in copper, aluminum, zinc and other metals-would still permit the industry to turn out plenty of cars. Automen and Government officials alike thought that the auto industry this year could make almost as many cars as it did in 1949, when 5,119,466 cars reached the market. Even the gloomiest of prophets placed output in 1951 at no fewer than 4,300,000 cars, more than 1948^ output...
...some of the trimmings will be eliminated-and prices higher. Automen think that they will be permitted to thaw their frozen prices about 5% when Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle brings out his new "profit margin" formula...