Word: flints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven Negro wet nurses who sat down for 10? per oz. in Chicago (see cut p. 12) had never heard of John L. Lewis, replied to questioners: "Y'all must mean Joe Louis." In Ionia, demanding back pay, members of the Michigan National Guard who had policed Flint during the General Motors Sit-Down, planted themselves on their armory steps, refused to budge until their captain handed them each a $5 bill from the troop's athletic fund. When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago's Comet Model Airplane...
...Iron, Steel & Tin Workers into which John L. Lewis and his C. I. O. are trying to enlist all the steel workers in the land. Circuit Judge Ralph J. Dady had promptly issued a temporary order for them to evacuate. But the example of the automobile sit-downers in Flint (TIME, Feb. 15) had taught the Fansteel men to pay no attention to the court. Just as Flint's Judge Paul V. Gadola had done, Judge Dady issued a writ for the sitters' arrest. This time there was no Governor Murphy to tell the sheriff to ignore...
Thus does Marching Song deal with a sit-down strike in an automobile town called Brimmerton. As will be evident from the partial inventory above of its dramatic materials, it is not a hastily concocted case history of the General Motors strike in Flint (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). It is a proletarian fairy tale in unrelieved black & white. Viewed from within its own wonderland it is vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents...
...will march out as a victorious army, in a glorious crusade for a better life," bellowed a Union leader. A jubilant parade marched past the factories and through the streets of Flint...
...Flint, Wyndham Mortimer read the terms of the settlement to the sit-downers before John L. Lewis was again taking his 6 p. m. medicine. When he read that General Motors would recognize the Union as bargaining agent for its members, the sit-downers grumbled. When he read Mr. Knudsen's letter, the grumbling ended...