Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit, Mich...
...grumble that the Chrysler settlement was a defeat for labor. It was a defeat, however, not so much for Leader Lewis as for an ill-advised strike spirit in the plants which had forced his hand. Night after the settlement he addressed a crowd of 25,000 unionists jamming Detroit's State Fair Coliseum and made it plain that it was time for hotheads to give up blundering into strikes for which their responsible leaders were not ready. First, however, his aides warmed up the crowd by telling them that the Chrysler settlement amounted to sole recognition...
Such were the words of Henry Ford, wintering in Georgia, uttered only a few hours before John L. Lewis' labor meeting in Detroit. Every speaker at the meeting derided them and the crowd booed Ford's name. Before the week was out it looked as if shrewd Mr. Ford were launching a planned counterattack on C. I. O. He allowed himself to be photographed repeatedly in all sorts of homely poses, talking to children, showing them how a steam engine works, confabbing with a one-legged Negro (see cut). He continued giving interviews picturing himself in the same...
...somewhat dubious commentary on public feeling were minor elections held in Michigan last week. In Flint a union-supported city ticket was merely an also-ran, and Flint's county (Genesee), which previously voted New Deal, went Republican, as did five of eight industrial counties, but not Detroit (Wayne County). Of nine State officers elected (on unofficial returns), six were Democrats...
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