Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 54 days of industrial warfare, peace came last week to Detroit. All that time Chrysler Corp. had been closed and 56 glass and rubber plants as well as many other supply factories throughout the U. S. were also closed. Automobiles which people wanted to buy were not being made. Perhaps 150,000 workers who needed work and wages got neither. Best name for this standstill was what the Irish called their six-year civil war: the Trouble...
...unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides haggled over terms of a new contract, the union gave Chrysler an excuse to close first its great Dodge plant, then others in Detroit, Indiana and California, by slowing down on the job just as new models were coming out. Chrysler unionists voted, 25,402 to 2,030, to make it a formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called...
...Detroit this week C.I.O.'s cool, canny Vice President Philip Murray brought some hope of peace at last. With Vice President Sidney Hillman, burry Mr. Murray is overlord and trouble-shooter of U.A.W. Two weeks of absentee advice (by telephone) having failed to get results, he appeared in person to read Messrs. Thomas & Frankensteen their umpteenth lesson in how to run a union...
...Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Frances Dodge Johnson, daughter of John F. Dodge, celebrated her 25th birthday, got a tidy present from the Dodge automobile estate: control of her $10,000,000 trust fund...
...banned it, almost as quickly reversed their ban after the title was changed to Beasts of Berlin, some 67 feet were cut out of the film. Soon in other States bans and okays flew as thick as autumn leaves. By last week New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians and the citizens of Detroit, Mich, might see the picture. Ohioans, Virginians and the citizens of Chicago and Providence, R. I., emphatically might not. Reason: banning censors claimed the film was bare-faced propaganda tending to stir up national hatreds...