Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vented. Fortnight ago here was a preliminary skirmish when the A. F. of L. Automobile Workers' Union demanded a 20% wage increase and recognition. Last week the opening gun of the battle was fired by the National Automobile Chamber of Com merce. After a two-day session in Detroit the Chamber issued a manifesto declaring that, in spite of the fact that hourly wages are as high as in 1929, that weekly earnings are 90% as high and living costs only 83% as high, it would advise its members to cut hours from 40 to 36 a week...
...very serious malady," but assured them that this is not a "measles year" in New York. In the first ten weeks of last year the city had 9.562 cases and 44 deaths, against 413 cases and two deaths for the same period this year. Last week Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles showed similar decreases from last year. Measles epidemics are purely local, run in cycles of two or three years. Best explanation of the cycle is that, having immunized most of a city's schoolchildren, measles does not strike again until a fresh, fairly large crop of children have come...
...tons in the first two months of the year was precisely 100% above the figure for the same period of 1933. Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast the trend of steel activity, rose to a 3½-year high at $14.50 per ton. Brightest spot was the Detroit area where mills were running at 100% capacity. Retail sales boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump...
Matthew Smith, Mechanics Educational Society of Detroit (automobile labor): The NRA is definitely scared of Ford and General Motors. Labor has been fairly patient but now if the NRA does not function old-fashioned strikes will. . . . We have tried the law but we are disillusioned and have no faith in it any more...
...trying to accustom himself to artificial lights and the green canvas court which is part of the baggage of a Tilden tennis tour, said he expected to turn the tables, failed to do so in Boston where Tilden & Vines made another clean sweep. Itinerary of the tour: Boston, Montreal, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Newark, New Haven, New York City, Albany and Rochester...