Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 3 a. m. he emerged from a 16-hour conference and announced not peace but at least truce. Terms: the union agreed to General Motors' demand for the evacuation of sit-downers from five plants, two in Flint, two in Detroit, one in Anderson, Ind. General Motors agreed to the union's demand that it would not resume operations in these plants nor remove dies, tools, machines or materials (except for the export trade) during peace negotiations, which should meanwhile begin...
That put the fat in the fire. Strike Leader Martin had got the sit-downers to evacuate two General Motors plants in Detroit and one at Anderson, Ind. Before starting to Flint to evacuate the two remaining plants, Mr. Martin became outraged. He made a speech to a union rally in Detroit not only repeating previous charges that Mr. Boysen was a too of General Motors but denouncing the Flint Alliance as a collection of house wives and members of the Black Legion Then he went to Flint, harangued a meeting and it was voted not to evacuate 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...
...Dumke" are now known as "Sisters of the Skillet." Charles B. has made a in movies and on the Fred Astaire stanza over a work. No promise of seriousness has been Mr. worth's. His has been a promise of madness, and must be accepted for South Bend, Ind., the Brothers, and the U. S. A. in general. The of the Skillet" are now known as the "Quality Twins, and are very glad to be known as such from cost coast, they are earning a new living...
...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 at Anderson, Ind., its Fisher and Chevrolet plants at Norwood, Ohio. As U. S. factories closed for the long New Year's weekend, nine G. M. plants with 33,000 employes were already idle and the rest of the Corporation's 69 plants and 211,000 employes seemed doomed to follow before another...