Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month. Then the jigs, dies, tools for next year's models are being completed. As these are finished, the comparatively few, highly skilled men who make them get their seasonal layoff. Until they are finished, work on the new models cannot proceed down the production line. In giant General Motors, the ratio of tool & die makers to the workers who will later produce parts and assemble cars is about...
...time to cripple a hand. It was painful to the corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every day, and no man knew when his marching orders might come. Moreover, a few men at a time were exerting pressure as menacing as a general walkout would be, while those still at work kept drawing...
That last demand irked General Motors most. It was the key to Walter Reuther's whole subtle strike purpose. What union label would he prefer? The C. I. 0. label, of course. But not all G. M. workers are C. I. 0. unionists by any means. And the split of United Automobile Workers into a C. I. 0. and an A. F. of L. faction occurred after G. M.'s present contract with U. A. W. was negotiated. Walter Reuther, declared the company, was making demands and calling strikes at this critical time simply to clinch the superiority...
Walter Reuther's superior, President Roland Jay Thomas of U. A. W.C. I. O., accused the corporation of bad faith. Said he: "General Motors knows that we speak for these workers. The strike vote . . . proved that.''* Why then did U. A. W.C. I. 0. object to an election being held? Because it would delay matters until the tool & die men, if they went on working, should finish their jobs and be laid...
...laws breed litigation, and a great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...