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Losing ground, Frankensteen made dramatic attempts to settle the crucial Kelsey-Hayes strike. He failed to produce any dramatic results. Meanwhile the muddled state of Detroit's labor affairs did nothing to improve his standing in the public eye. Last week Detroit politicos guessed his chances were no better than 50-50 (though he had drawn 82,936 primary votes to Jeffries' 68,754), that he would win only if Detroit had a strong, last-minute impulse to throw out his opponent...
Vital Threat. In Detroit, the wildcat strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co. still kept 50,000 Ford workers from their jobs. One night last week the United Automobile Workers' President R. J. Thomas begged and pleaded with the un ruly strikers to go back to work. They drowned him out with boos. The Kelsey-Hayes workers had taken matters into their own hands; neither Thomas nor, apparently, any other top U.A.W. official could get them back...
...laying off 2,200; 800 others for whom there was work found pickets on duty when they arrived at the plant. The 800 did not work. Neither did 50,000 workers shut out of Ford plants because of a continuing strike-which defied even U.A.W. settlement efforts-at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel...
Giant Ford Motor Co., first manufacturer to get postwar cars rolling off the lines in any quantity, suddenly closed down. Sporadic strikes against Ford suppliers had crippled production, Ford said. The worst strike was at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., where 4,500 workers had been out for three weeks in defiance of their own union leaders. In retaliation, Ford shut virtually all its plants, locked out 50,000 workers...
Detroit was typical. There, 4,500 struck at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., forcing the Ford Motor Co. to send 30,000 home and shut down temporarily. A strike of 500 at Hudson Motor Car Co. threw another 6,000 out of work. All across the nation, strikes mushroomed faster than the War Labor Board could keep track of them, much less track down the reasons for all of them...