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...name of the President of the U. S. Under that pressure, General Motors abandoned its stubborn refusal to negotiate with the strike leaders until they had yielded up its captive plants. Twice had President Sloan rejected similar summonses by Secretary of Labor Perkins, but Executive Vice President Knudsen now wrote to Governor Murphy: "The wish of the President of the United States leaves no alternative except compliance...
...Knudsen promised that G. M. would keep up payments on the group insurance policies of both non-strikers and strikers. Still grimly determined to evict sit-downers, however, G. M. renewed the court proceedings which it allowed to lapse when the Flint judge who had granted it an injunction was revealed to be the owner of $219,900 worth of G. M. stock (TIME...
...into trench warfare, the active front shifted last week to Washington. Thither went Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union. In Washington all these could confer with the two other vitally interested parties to the strike: John L. Lewis, overlord of the Committee for Industrial Organization, to whom the unionization of the motor industry is but one strategic move in his great...
...unlawful occupation" of its plants; 2) the plight of non-union workers unwillingly deprived of work & pay. In Manhattan, President Sloan issued a vigorous statement rehearsing both points. Listeners to the nation-wide General Motors radio hour heard a homily on "The Right to Work." In Detroit, Vice President Knudsen announced that, to give 95,000 nonstriking employes at least part-time work, G. M. would this week reopen all the plants it could, build up inventories of parts and perhaps produce complete trucks at the Chevrolet plant in Indianapolis...
...unionists among the 31,000 employes of the 17 strike-closed plants would unfortunately have to keep on shifting for themselves. G. M., said Mr. Knudsen emphatically, had no intention of provoking violence by employing strikebreakers. As neither side showed signs of yielding, Madam Secretary Perkins this week invoked the Congressional statute which empowers the Secretary of Labor to mediate a labor dispute "whenever . . . the interests of industrial peace so re- quire." virtually commanded the G. M. and C. I. O. leaders to resume with her at once the conference which John Lewis had disrupted...