Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Frank Couzens (son of the late Senator James Couzens). Mayor Couzens yielded, got the union to defer the mass meeting till 5:45, advised firms in the office buildings on Cadillac Square to dismiss their workers early. Save for groups of strikers trooping to their rendezvous, the heart of Detroit was almost deserted at rush hour...
...most part only men, able-bodied men in their working years-more than one might find by rounding up the entire adult male population of Bridgeport, Conn., or Nashville, Tenn., or Long Beach. Calif., or the whole State of Nevada. If it was a mob then Detroit was seeing the biggest industrial mob scene* in modern U. S. history. The crowd milled quietly but listened too as, in a hoarse droning roar from the loudspeakers, Homer Martin breathed defiance in all directions...
Homer Martin and Richard Frankensteen, C. I. O.'s chief Detroit organizer, started from Lansing over icy midnight roads with an escort of State troopers to call the men out. And that was no easy task. 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...
Adopted. By Mrs. William Teaham, sister of Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, onetime U. S. High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth; a daughter; in Detroit. Name: Mary (after the Governor's deceased mother) Aurora (after the wife of Philippine President Manuel Quezon...