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Interested Judge. When G. M. got Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint to issue an injunction last fortnight ordering Flint sit-downers to evacuate the two local Fisher Body plants, they hooted down the sheriff who tried to read it to them. Last week General Martin scored by asserting that Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted...
Three days later violence flared up in Governor Murphy's State. In Flint's Chevrolet assembly plant, non-union workmen faced with loss of their jobs because of the strike listened resentfully to the voice of a U. A. W. organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front...
...week how many workers belonged to his Union. Publicly he claims "over 100,000," privately puts the number closer to 150,000. Without allowance for the usual exaggeration of union claims, his membership was still a decided minority of the industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves content with their lot, anxious to keep on working. President Martin cried "vigilantes" at the Flint Alliance...
...while the American Bar Association's House of Delegates met in Columbus' Deshler-Wallick Hotel to frame A. B. A. policies. Before the "congress" adjourned, the A. B. A.'s ethics & grievance committee was directed to investigate the action of Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint in enjoining Fisher Body workers from striking, report to the annual A. B. A. convention in September whether ethical canons had been violated because Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of General Motors stock...
Most uproar was caused, almost before President Kern mounted the rostrum, by a proposal to do something about Judge Edward D. Black's strike injunction at Flint. After much discussion punctuated by cheers and hisses, tabling and enabling votes, the proposal was tabled on grounds that the National Lawyers Guild really did not yet exist...