Word: chryslers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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U.A.W. negotiations were already under way with Chrysler, Packard, Kaiser-Frazer and Hudson. United Electrical Workers will begin their fight with Westinghouse and General Electric on Jan. 4. Phil Murray's Steelworkers bargain next month to replace a contract expiring...
When blatant Bill Jack and his quiet partner Ralph M. Heintz peddled their war baby last spring to Manhattan engineer B. C. Milner Jr. and Byron C. Foy, onetime vice president of Chrysler Corp., they got 1) roughly $8 million in cash and stock, 2) five-year contracts at $40,000 a year, 3) promises to retain their employe program...
First token that it was came from N.A.M.'s industrial relations committee, drawing up suggestions for a new federal labor policy. Some committee members, led by Chrysler Corp.'s finance chairman, B. E. Hutchinson, and the Michigan Manufacturers Association's hard-bitten general manager, John R. Lovett, were all for demanding quick repeal of the Wagner Act. But to committee chairman Clarence B. Randall, vice president of Inland Steel Co., plumping for outright repeal seemed just the sort of thing that had given N.A.M. a bad name in the past. N.A.M., said Randall, should be content...
...models entirely and bringing out a 1948 model late next year. Packard already had the dies for a 1948 model, "new from the tires up," planned to introduce it early next fall. Studebaker, now producing the first real postwar car, planned to continue making it until 1948 or later. Chrysler, which had carefully labeled its present models "postwar automobiles" instead of 1946 models, had nothing further...
...week-unless makers of parts had to stop production before that time for lack of steel, coal, or power. (Birmingham Gas Co. this week notified its industrial customers that if temperatures went down to freezing, it would have to divert their entire supply of gas to domestic consumers.) Ford, Chrysler and Hudson used the Thanksgiving weekend as an excuse for temporary shutdowns. Unless the coal strike ended, 500,000 autoworkers would be out of work by Christmas. They would be out sooner if an embargo was clamped on all but essential freight...