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...Grand Trunk Western Railroad has thinned out its work force by 600 men, and the Penn Central, with its largest single customer out of operation, has been affected "seriously" and cut back some of its operations. Several of the advertising agencies that handle G.M. accounts have decreed pay slashes. Chevrolet's agency, Campbell-Ewald, for instance, has imposed reductions ranging from 10% for everyone making less than $10,000 a year to 15% for staffers earning between $10,000 and $25,000, and 25% for those earning more...
Skeeter and I sat in the front seat of his '62 Chevrolet and he pointed out some "real good boys" he had gone to school with. "Good fighters too," he bragged, "throw a real quick punch." Then he stopped smiling and said it. "You know any of them goddamned hippies...
Woodcock, who succeeded Walter Reuther as head of the mammoth 430,000-member UAW, spoke on the eve of today's SDS-University Action Group demonstration at Seymour Chevrolet in support of the auto workers...
...stretched around the grimy headquarters of United Auto Workers Local 235 in Hamtramck, Mich. Occasionally, one of the men raised a clenched fist in salute, or another flashed a smile for photographers or a V-for-victory gesture, but mostly they were strangely silent. Across the street, pickets patrolled Chevrolet's gear and axle plant, carrying signs that proclaimed: UAW ON STRIKE FOR JUSTICE, or INCREASED PENSIONS or, simply, EQUITY. Said one of the pickets, Robert Jackson: "They told us the strike would last till next year. We're going to see Christmas on these picket lines...
...auto industry is destined to join the long list of others -textiles, radios, shoes, barber chairs -that can no longer freely and vigorously compete against lower wage foreign manufacturers. In July, imported cars captured an alltime high 15.6% of the nation's auto market. Last week Chevrolet Chief John Z. DeLorean observed that U.S. wage rates are 2.1 times as high as Germany's, 2.8 times Britain's and four times Japan's. Though wages abroad are leaping ahead faster in percentage terms than those in the U.S., American wages are so much higher to begin...