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...Flint at week's end, violence broke out at Chevrolet's plant No. 9 when a group of unionists approached the plant manager, demanded recognition. Company guards leaped to the manager's defense, fists flew, shots were fired, 15 were injured. A crowd of men forced their way into plant No. 4 and "sat down," subsequently engaging in a fire-hose battle with non-union workmen. Thereupon, under orders from Governor Murphy, 1,200 troops of the Michigan National Guard moved into the zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away...
...heard a homily on "The Right to Work." In Detroit, Vice President Knudsen announced that, to give 95,000 nonstriking employes at least part-time work, G. M. would this week reopen all the plants it could, build up inventories of parts and perhaps produce complete trucks at the Chevrolet plant in Indianapolis...
...Having begun preaching when he was 19, he was dubbed "The Leaping Parson." In 1931, brimming with zeal for applied Christianity, Homer Martin was called to the pulpit of small Leeds Baptist Church on the outskirts of Kansas City. Most of his 400 parishioners were employes of the nearby Chevrolet plant, but a few were employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave...
Laymen got some idea of the magnitude and complexity of G. M.'s production mechanism when it was calculated that closing of the Flint plant which makes Chevrolet motors would force closing, whether workers had struck or not, of Chevrolet assembly and parts plants in Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.; Toledo and Norwood, Ohio; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Janesville, Wis.; Oakland, Calif.; Buffalo and Tarrytown, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Bloomfield...
Three days later violence flared up in Governor Murphy's State. In Flint's Chevrolet assembly plant, non-union workmen faced with loss of their jobs because of the strike listened resentfully to the voice of a U. A. W. organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front...