Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME says: "Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down...
TIME says: "In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit...
Briggs Manufacturing Co. Detroit, Mich...
...Kansas City last week Leader Lewis let General Motors feel his whip when 2,450 employes of its Fisher body and Chevrolet assembly plants "sat down" at their jobs in protest against discharge of a U. A. W. employe. In Detroit. 1.500 employes of National Automotive Fibres, Inc. (floor mats, cushions, door panels for Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut...
Pianist Serkin scored his second Manhattan triumph three days after his second Chicago one. Later this season he will play twice more in New York. Other engagements will take him to Winnipeg, Cincinnati, Toronto, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Dallas. Next March he sails again for Europe...