Word: forde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME says: "Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down...
Most serious threat to the motor industry came last week as the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, demanding more pay, closed shop and check-off of union dues, added 5,600 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in Toledo, Shreveport and Charleston, W. Va., to the 1,300 already striking in Libbey's Ottawa, Ill. plant and 6,000 in five plants of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. U. S. manufacture of plate glass was thus brought virtually to a halt. Between.them, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh make 90% of the nation's plate glass, 85% of its automobile...
...Briggs was the largest independent body maker in the U. S. It still is. An original capital investment of $50,000 has produced a $42,468,000 company. Mainly on body business from such motor makers as Ford, Chrysler and Packard, Briggs last year earned $9,266,000. To diversify its manufactures the company has lately developed a line of lightweight stamped iron bathroom fixtures with a porcelain finish called "Brig-steel" which it says is cheaper to ship and install than conventional products...
While Briggs and Motor Products do not compete in the accessory trade they do have one thing in common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike...
Last week in Los Angeles a bigger & better merger brought a smarter oilman than Tom Slick triumphantly into the news. After five years of patient maneuvering, poker-faced Harry Ford Sinclair had got what he wanted in California- a major oil distributing system in that State. He got it by agreeing to share it with silver-bearded Chairman Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., just as he got his great holding company, Consolidated Oil Corp., on shares with the Rockefellers in 1932. Oilman Sinclair's triumph was the acquisition of working control of Richfield...