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There is a job in the Flint area for virtually anyone who wants one. Of a work force of 135,400, some 86,700 are employed by G.M. The 83,000 hourly employees draw wages averaging $109 a week-with some skilled oldtimers at the forge plants earning $10,000 a year. Flint has an automobile for every 2.8 persons, v. a nationwide average of one for every 3.7. Nearly 80% of the residents own their own homes, and 80% of the homes have television (even though 15-or 20-ft. aerials must be stuck on rooftops to pick...
Sitdown Strike. In 1937 much of Flint was sprayed by tear gas as the U.A.W. staged its first major sitdown strike, against G.M. Today most people agree that the U.A.W. raised Flint's level of prosperity by getting its members a bigger share of G.M.'s increasing income, just as G.M. managers raised the level by continuing to increase the income...
...dispute umpire system (in 1940), first to hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...
...Flint's current No. 1 campaign is culture. The city is building housing projects, new churches, school buildings and a huge $5,000,000 civic center. In addition the Flint Junior College is expanding to become the nucleus of the new Flint campus of the University of Michigan, which will open next September. One of its main structures: the Harlow H. Curtice Academic Building. Flint's adult education program has an enrollment of 40,000 people, who study everything from classical languages to the fine art of tying trout flies. The Flint Community Music Association comprises 42 independent...
This Town & Flint. Give or take a few dollars and a few square dancers, Flint could represent-qualitatively-almost any industrial city in the land. It could be Arlington, Texas, which jumped in population from 7,000 to 35,000 in five years, as new plants moved into the area between Dallas and Fort Worth, drawing most of their new employees from agricultural areas. It could be Los Angeles, which added as many factory workers in the past five years (277,400) as in the previous 21. Or even New England, which put its brains to work and found...