Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit reporters and photographers have learned to expect gas and clubs as a matter of routine. During the Flint strike Reporter Gay Girardin of the Detroit Times was at a phone inside the Chevrolet plant talking to his city editor when rioting started. Tear and nausea gas clouds rolled in on him as he continued phoning his story, coughing and vomiting. Once he looked up to see a striker coming at him with a club. Girardin stopped the club in mid-air with a "Hello Tony." Most thoughtful Labor expert to emerge in Detroit has been lanky, young, bespectacled Reporter...
Were Henry Ford bowled over by a Ford or William Knudsen by a Chevrolet, he would feel as President Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. felt when, landing at Pittsburgh with ten other passengers in a TWA plane, the tail wheel snagged and the big Douglas ground-looped, smacking its wing into a temporary grandstand. Injuries: none...
...unionists have plagued General Motors and U. A. W. officials ever since they came to terms last month.* Late last week the worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly out of patience...
Hotly embarrassed, President Martin and his lieutenants whirled from plant to plant, persuaded their men to come out. go back to work, but a fresh sit-down this week closed Chevrolet's steering gear plant at Saginaw. With confidence in their authority badly shaken, U. A. W. leaders resorted to straight capitalistic tactics, blamed their troubles on communists, promised a union purge...
...Some Chevrolet malcontents have also resorted to the "slow down" cutting production from 400 to 250 units per hr. by stopping work at regular intervals...