Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase in the plants of Motor Products Corp. (maker of windshield frames, instrument panels, window reveals et al. for Chrysler, Dodge, De Soto, Plymouth, Hudson, Ford) had put 5,600 men out of work. The Wolman Board...
...eliminated in the tournament last fortnight were the New York Rangers who won the Stanley Cup last year. The Toronto Maple Leafs, by far the ablest team in the National League judged by their season's record, were put out fortnight ago in a semi-final against the Detroit Red Wings, owned by Broker James Norris of Lake Forest, Ill. Opponents of the Red Wings in last week's three-out-of-five series for the Cup were the Chicago Black Hawks, owned by Mr. Norris' neighbor, Major Frederic McLaughlin...
...Detroit, April 9--The strike of 5,800 union workers employed by the Motor Products Corporation was settled tonight, the strikers received a 10 per cent increase in wages...
Died. George Harrison Barbour, 90, director of Detroit-Michigan Stove Co., "grand old man" of Detroit business; of pneumonia; in Detroit...