Word: detroit
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...They drift in, and they drift out," explains William N. Wilson Jr., employment director of the Detroit Urban League. Probably no more than a quarter of the 23,000 men originally hired are still at work; at Chrysler, which hired 12,000, the figure is no better than one in ten. "Maybe 100,000 persons have been working on all 23,000 jobs in the past five months," says Wilson. Chrysler was so shocked by its own record that it has given a local social agency $500,000 to find out what went wrong...
...Nitty-Gritty. G.M. is now trying to foster a similar attitude in its Chevrolet gear-and-axle plant on the fringe of one of Detroit's worst slums. Its solution: an eleven-member committee of overseers that does for the unmotivated unemployed what Alcoholics Anonymous does for the overly motivated drinker. When one of die newly hired slum dwellers misses the whistle on Monday morning, one of the eleven goes to his house, wakes him up, dresses him, gives him a cup of coffee-and delivers him at the factory gate...
...seemed like a rerun of 1964. Once again, Detroit's two strike-prone newspapers were closed down. As before, contract negotiations had been proceeding fairly smoothly when one union got too greedy and stopped talking. Once again, interim papers quickly sprang up. The question was: Would the strike that began on Nov. 16 last as long as the previous one: 134 days...
Local television is also filling the news gap. Not only have the commercial stations increased their coverage but educational channel 56 got an unprecedented ten-week grant of $3,000 a week from the Ford Foundation for an evening news program. In a studio equipped with typewriters and telephones, Detroit Free Press staffers read and discuss the day's news. The program also includes editorials, book and movie reviews. As is usually the case when camera-shy newsmen go on TV they stumble over words but project an air of authenticity. Deplorable as the strike is, Detroit is about...
When United Auto Workers Boss Walter Reuther emerged from a conference with his top aides one day last week, Detroit expected to hear the ritualistic announcement of a strike dead line at General Motors Corp. Instead, Reuther slyly proclaimed what he called a "target date" of Dec. 14. Only if there is no settlement by that time, explained Walter, would an actual dead line be set - for some time after the first of next year. Reason for the move: by avoiding an early strike, the union's 372,000 G.M. workers will be assured of their two paid holidays...