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...union, one week a year vacation and two weeks' sick leave, all with pay. When the terms were reported in the power houses early one morning the workers were indignant that they had not got 10? an hour raise. Without warning they pulled the switches, leaving Flint, Saginaw, Bay City with their 300,000 inhabitants as well as those of the surrounding countryside without light in their homes or power in their factories. This made even Governor Frank Murphy speak to the strikers severely, and the union negotiating committee hurrying back from Washington by plane told the workers...
...before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...
...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...
...Spontaneous" sit-downs of dissatisfied unionists have plagued General Motors and U. A. W. officials ever since they came to terms last month.* Late last week the worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly...
...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...