Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
...Detroit was ominous as last week began. The United Automobile Workers, 6,000 of whose brawniest were sitting down in nine Chrysler plants, asked for a permit to hold a mass meeting of strike sympathizers. The place: Cadillac Square in the heart of Detroit. The hour: 4:30 p. m., as the evening rush hour began...
...John Lewis' word was by no means law to these thousands of raw recruits in his labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property until the truce should produce a treaty...
Thursday evening Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis met again to try for a treaty. Columnist Hugh Johnson wrote that the evacuation agreement had been made nearly three weeks earlier by Messrs. Chrysler & Lewis, that it fell through because Mr. Lewis could not reach his lieutenants in Detroit within the time agreed on and because "lawyers and other industrialists" put pressure on Mr. Chrysler to make Governor Murphy oust the sit-downers. Of the post-evacuation negotiations, Hugh Johnson said...
...They usually could clear up the real issues in a couple of hours, but it has gotten to be a habit to talk for days and sometimes weeks. ... I may be wrong, but it's a good bet that nothing like that will attend the meetings of Walter Chrysler and John Lewis. They are too much alike in plain barnyard common sense...