Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superficial causes of the conflict were incredibly trivial. At General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Cleveland early in the week the management postponed a meeting with a shop grievance committee from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. A few key metal workers belonging to United Automobile Workers union promptly "sat down" at their jobs, bringing the whole plant, with its 7,000 employes, to a halt. Already idle were 1,500 Fisher Body and Chevrolet assembly workers in Atlanta who had quit ostensibly because several employes were fired for wearing U. A. W. buttons...
Less than 50 key U. A. W. employes "sat down" in Fisher Body Plant No. 2 at Flint, Mich., thereby closing their plant and curtailing operations in the companion Chevrolet plant which depends on it for bodies. Few hours later a sit-down at Flint's Fisher Plant No. i closed it and crippled the Buick assembly plant which it supplies. Out of work in Flint alone were 14,600 General Motors employes; the local U. A. W. organizer called for $100,000 to finance the strike. Followed sit-downs in G. M.'s Guide Lamp Division...
...committee has been selected, headed by Oscar W. Hausserman, with Thomas J. Campbell handling the publicity. Others on the committee are John Elliott, Robert L. Fisher, Hugh L. Gaddis, Arthur J. Goldsmith, Francis C. Gray, Curt E. Hanse, Joseph P. Kennedy, Ralph Lowell, Clarence B. Randall, Howard C. Reid, Thorvald S. Ross, Lawrence D. Smith, Richard B. Wigglesworth, Raymond S. Wilkins, and Dr. Paul R. Withington...
...Kansas City last week Leader Lewis let General Motors feel his whip when 2,450 employes of its Fisher body and Chevrolet assembly plants "sat down" at their jobs in protest against discharge of a U. A. W. employe. In Detroit. 1.500 employes of National Automotive Fibres, Inc. (floor mats, cushions, door panels for Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut...
...president, continued his habits of cutting red tape. In 1935 Mr. Fraser retired from B. I. S. to take the vice-presidency of Manhattan's rich, conservative First National Bank ("The Baker Bank"), his first job as a commercial banker. Last week, First National's chairman, George Fisher Baker, son and namesake of the founder, announced that President Jackson Eli Reynolds, 63, would retire Jan. 1 at his own request, would be succeeded by Vice President Leon Fraser...