Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom $100 is a mere flyspeck on the expense account, of timid-looking souls who may have been frightened by stern letters of invitation, of would-be office holders, of nobodies whose sense of importance was enlarged by attending a $100 dinner. Two noteworthy guests were Messrs. Walter P. Chrysler and William Green. Madam Secretary Perkins and Madam Director of the Mint Ross were among the very few women guests, for most Democrats did not put up an extra $100 to feed their wives...
While soft William Green talked, hard John Lewis was acting. Driving on against the second of the automobile industry's Big Three, his U.A.W. lieutenants opened their Chrysler conference with a bold demand for sole recognition, were refused, showed their strength this week by calling a sit-down which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...favorite was Consolidated Gas, followed by Electric Bond & Share and American Telephone & Telegraph Co. All these have since disappeared from the list, which is now led by General Motors, International Nickel and Chrysler. *So urgent is its rearmament program that Britain last week halved its 20% duty on steel, abolished its duty on iron...
...When Chrysler draughtsmen organized a Society of Designing Engineers, C. A. C. furnished a draughtsman-agent to join the union, report on its meetings. Twenty members were shortly discharged. Remaining members, a Society official testified last week, were so terrorized that they had stopped attending meetings, were mailing their dues...
...What," asked Senator La Follette, "would be your judgment on a Chrysler executive who sat in at meetings and then revealed secrets to a competitor...