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Laymen got some idea of the magnitude and complexity of G. M.'s production mechanism when it was calculated that closing of the Flint plant which makes Chevrolet motors would force closing, whether workers had struck or not, of Chevrolet assembly and parts plants in Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.; Toledo and Norwood, Ohio; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Janesville, Wis.; Oakland, Calif.; Buffalo and Tarrytown, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Bloomfield...
...employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true of the Fisher Body Company in Cleveland, the Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 at Flint, and several others. Consequently, no one knows how many of the employees who are out of work are really strikers and how many are simply deprived of work by the strikes. It is doubtful whether the Union itself has any idea as to how many real strikers there are even...
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...
...Knudsen's third point-that every one of the G. M. strikes had been called against the wishes of a vast majority of the workers affected-the Labor leaders did not comment. Backing for the G. M. executive's assertion came in Flint when all 500 employes of Buick's sheet metal plant sent Buick President Harlow H. Curtice a loyal New Year's greeting, following up a similar Christmas message sent by 1,400 transmission plant workers. But in the automobile industry's complex production mechanism, withdrawal of a few key workmen is just...
...pursued him. His voluble housekeeper (whose father had worked in a gasworks and naturally died of a gastric ulcer) complained that her niece insisted on becoming a nurse, so "I always tells her that's just the job for her, as she has got a heart like a flint, and she loves the sight of blood...