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...Three have laid off 85,000 workers, or 12% of their auto-plant labor force; Flint, Mich., a General Motors town, is reeling from a 20% unemployment rate. AMC has hired 2,300 new workers in the past year for its Kenosha, Wis., plants, where all its passenger cars are assembled, boosting employment there to 11,800 and cutting the jobless rate in the town to a mere...
...impact of the strike was widespread. For want of materials, many factories closed or reduced their work hours, including plants owned by Chrysler in Belvidere, Ill., American Motors in Kenosha, Wis., and General Electric in Louisville. Unable to get carcasses, meat-packing plants from Colorado to Illinois shut down, further reducing supplies and setting the scene for additional retail-price hikes. In West Virginia, five coal mines were closed for lack of fuel. Fearful drivers for oil companies refused to take their trucks out, and service stations in many cities closed...
...Chapin Jr., 57, the Yale-educated auto man who has been the company's front-seat driver for five years, "We're not satisfied with that." As if to underscore his determination, AMC this week announced that it will reopen fairly soon a plant in Kenosha, Wis., that has been shut down for nearly two years. It will produce about 200 cars...
...McGOVERN DEMOCRATS. The Senator's strong stand on ending the Viet Nam War remains the most binding issue among his supporters. Surprisingly, however, half of Mc-Govern's backers think that the Senator's own promised timetable for ending the war is impractical. Gerald Cooper, a Kenosha, Wis., schoolteacher, staunchly supports McGovern's antiwar position but says: "I don't know if he can end the war within 90 days. I'd like to see him try it, but I would give him a year...
Intermediate Year. Production has been cut back a bit by strikes. A five-week walkout at an American Motors Corp. plant in Kenosha, Wis., which was settled last week, cost A.M.C. more than 30,000 cars. Another strike at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Mich., has reduced General Motors' production by 4,375 cars a week, for nine weeks so far. Ford's new Maverick is selling at the rate of 400,000 a year but is drawing sales from the company's other lines. Ford salesmen believe, however, that this will be the year...