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Battle Front conditions, however pleasing they might seem to John Lewis, were actually growing uglier every day. Some 40,000 of G. M.'s nonstriking employes went back to part-time work last week without violence. But in strike-bound Flint, the anti-strike Flint Alliance turned out 8.000 citizens for a mass meeting at which John Lewis and other strike leaders were truculently abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed...
Knudsen promised that G. M. would keep up payments on the group insurance policies of both non-strikers and strikers. Still grimly determined to evict sit-downers, however, G. M. renewed the court proceedings which it allowed to lapse when the Flint judge who had granted it an injunction was revealed to be the owner of $219,900 worth of G. M. stock (TIME...
...Flint at week's end, violence broke out at Chevrolet's plant No. 9 when a group of unionists approached the plant manager, demanded recognition. Company guards leaped to the manager's defense, fists flew, shots were fired, 15 were injured. A crowd of men forced their way into plant No. 4 and "sat down," subsequently engaging in a fire-hose battle with non-union workmen. Thereupon, under orders from Governor Murphy, 1,200 troops of the Michigan National Guard moved into the zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away...
Fortnight ago negotiations to end the great 1937 automobile labor war broke down when the United Automobile Workers failed to evacuate its sit-down strikers from two General Motors plants in Flint (TIME, Jan. 25). The fighting in Michigan having bogged down into trench warfare, the active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union...
...apparent reasonableness of the General Motors officials at the beginning of the strike won for them sympathy throughout the country. Their subsequent behaviour has done much to dissolve this, Sir Galahad cannot flirt with such a prostitute as the Flint Alliance without losing some of his purity. Mr. Sloan has proven his own worst enemy. If, as now seems probable, he is forced by President Roosevelt or Congress to sit down at the conference table he will find his position badly undermined by an arrogance which has no place in modern industrial relations...