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...reason for the motormen's bitter opposition to union labor. They are too vulnerable to be comfortable. In the autumn of 1933 a tool & die makers' strike tied up most of the industry, many a model at the 1934 show being practically handmade. The strike in the Chevrolet transmission plant in Toledo two years ago temporarily crippled the entire Chevrolet organization. Since that experience General Motors has done what Henry Ford did previously-made sure of at least two sources of supply. The haunting fear of possible famine had something to do with the motor industry...
...works councils, far from perfect collective bargaining agencies though they may be, have served to right many a labor wrong, particularly inequalities in pay. Every spontaneous move to create a corporate social life is encouraged. All companies go in for annual picnics, outings, field days. Chrysler has its choir, Chevrolet its glee club. General Motors office workers have a luncheon club, most popular speaker being Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen. General Motors plant workers go in for athletic clubs. Henry Ford's specialty remains a high minimum wage...
...Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have had lavished on them every available facility of the manufacturers who build them in the way of engineering development and testing, it is said at government expense. They have the most advanced forms...
Last May Socialist Laborite Nominee Aiken went to Manhattan, bought a second-hand 1934 Chevrolet and, accompanied by Herman Simon, a San Jose, Calif, school teacher, set out to stump...
...Republican and Democratic Nominees for President travel in special trains, the Prohibitionist in a lower berth, the Socialist in an upper berth, the Communist in a day coach and the Socialist Laborite in a second-hand Chevrolet. The Union Party candidate travels in airplanes. Since he, with Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin's support, "nominated" himself last June, freckle-faced William Lemke has been to 33 States, has flown some 30,000 miles...