Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While I have consistently counseled resort to conference and negotiation, and sought to avoid the use of force, there is obviously a limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket...
...union claimed (and Chrysler did not try to refute it) the support of a substantial majority of the company workers, which it had not claimed at General Motors. Specifically the union asserted that in January the workers had elected 103 union men of 120 chosen as representatives on employe shop councils...
...Several shop councils having voted appreciation of Chrysler's wage raise a month ago, the union made no wage or hour demands as it did from G. M. The one big issue was "sole recognition...
...after the sit-down began, when K. T. Keller, president of the company, and Vice President Herman Weckler drove up to the offices, the gates were closed and pickets kept them from entering. They retired to downtown Detroit. When Adolph Germer, C.I.O. representative, and Organizer Frankensteen arrived at the Chrysler plant for scheduled negotiations they telephoned downtown to Mr. Weckler to say it was all a mistake. The company officers would be admitted to their plant offices if they came back...
Next day the Chrysler officials were passed through the picket lines to continue negotiations but they were not satisfied with this arrangement. They applied to Judge Allan Campbell for an injunction against the sit-downers, charging 70 union leaders, from John L. Lewis down to "John Doe, Richard Roe and Mary Roe," with conspiracy to seize company property. Specifically, B. Edwin Hutchinson, chairman of Chrysler's Finance Committee, declared that the passes given to his office force to enter the offices were unsatisfactory, that automobiles of executives were searched by pickets, that company badges of non-union employes...