Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made for arbitration of disputes not settled by earlier steps. Mr. Weckler said ho, arbitration was impossible; that it meant, in the final analysis, the handing-over of plant operation to outsiders. Neither side disclosed what kind of arbitration plan was discussed. Mr. Frankensteen straightway produced a 1933 Chrysler agreement, in which arbitration was a major provision of Walter Percy Chrysler's company-union plan...
...strike might be settled in time to get workmen back to plants this week; later unperked, once more got gloomy. Big union hope: to get men back to work soon enough for them to get the price of turkeys. Big company hope: to get production started again so that Chrysler executives can eat their turkeys with good appetite...
Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...
Significance. When prosecution loomed, Ford and Chrysler accepted consent decrees, agreeing not to compel dealers to use their finance companies, provided that General Motors stood trial and lost. General Motors, carrying the ball for the big three, expects to appeal the case all the way to the Supreme Court. The final decision in G. M.'s case will determine whether the 370-odd independent U. S. finance companies can cut themselves in on the profitable installment business of the motor industry...
Steel production stood at 95%; cotton, wheat and other agricultural products showed strength; the automobile business was booming, except for strike-bound Chrysler; third-quarter reports of U. S. business were sensational; many a dividend check-regular, and extra-was going into the mailman...