Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Battle. Last week in Detroit the paths which began in Copenhagen and on an Illinois farm had met. William Knudsen and Homer Martin, as opposing field generals, were locked in one of the crucial industrial battles of U. S. history-the struggle of United Automobile Workers to make good General Martin's old boast, organize all 69 automobile plants of giant General Motors Corp.* (TIME...
Laymen got some idea of the magnitude and complexity of G. M.'s production mechanism when it was calculated that closing of the Flint plant which makes Chevrolet motors would force closing, whether workers had struck or not, of Chevrolet assembly and parts plants in Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.; Toledo and Norwood, Ohio; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Janesville, Wis.; Oakland, Calif.; Buffalo and Tarrytown, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Bloomfield...
Another was the enmity of the American Federation of Labor, with which John Lewis and his "rebel"' C. I. O. unions are now contesting for the mastery of U. S. Labor (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante). In Detroit and Cleveland, city labor councils voted to back the U. A. W. strike. But local councils are small potatoes in the A. F. of L. patch of jealous craft unions. First Federation gun was fired last week when the Cleveland heads of the Plumbers', Machinists', Electrical Workers' and Bricklayers' unions sent Fisher Superintendent Scafe a joint letter...
...having shown conspicuous ability in all manner of jobs during and after Detroit's banking crisis, Charles Thomas Fisher Jr., a Republican, was last year named a director of Reconstruction Finance Corp. by Franklin Roosevelt. Last week President Roosevelt "reluctantly" permitted his great & good friend Frank Murphy, Michigan's new Governor, to take this banker son of one of the seven body-building Fisher brothers of Detroit away from RFC, make him the State's Banking Commissioner...
...graduate of Georgetown University (Class of 1928), Banker Fisher got his first job in Detroit's Guardian National Bank of Commerce, left it to go with the National Credit Association. He became assistant manager of the Detroit agency of RFC soon after its formation, as well as a vice president of First National Bank -a big borrower from RFC.* In 1933 Mr. Fisher was made RFC's Detroit manager...