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Three evenings after the riot in Flint, General Motors' Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen and the Union's President Martin were seated at a table in Lansing with Governor Murphy. Governor Murphy was sitting politically pretty. Not having intervened to oust the sit-downers, he was still considered their friend. Law & order-minded citizens likewise applauded him for his declaration: "Whatever else may happen, there is going to be law and order in Michigan. The public interest and the public safety are paramount. The public authority in Michigan is stronger than either of the parties...
...shows quite clearly, that it is the public which is being sat down on. Like a referee in a wrestling match the masses of the people are kicked while the fighters grapple at each other, a situation which may last three months as did the maritime disorders. Martin and Knudsen have climbed out to the end of their respective limbs, for in justice's sake General Motors cannot recognize the United Automobile Workers as the sole voice for its employees, nor dare labor, egged on by John Lewis and the C.I.O., back away from its extreme demands. The perfect efficiency...
...week Michigan's New Deal Governor Frank Murphy and the Department of Labor's crack Conciliator James F. Dewey shuttled back & forth between G. M. and U. A. W. headquarters, trying vainly to bring Generals Knudsen and Martin together at a conference table. Each side conceded one point at issue, stood firm on another. General Martin offered to lay aside, until a conference should begin, his demand that U. A. W. be recognized as sole bargaining agency for G. M. workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual...
...less than that of grey William Knudsen was young Homer Martin's viewpoint explicit in his career. He had known anti-union discrimination and the nerve-racking speed-up at first hand. He had seen automobile Labor, with a scattering of small unions, repeatedly frustrated and defeated in its attempts to right its wrongs. It was obviously presumptuous of him to demand, when he could not even claim to represent a majority of G. M. employes, that his union be recognized as sole bargaining agency for them all. But if there was to be industrial democracy...
Others earning more than $300,000 included General Motors President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. ($374,505) and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen ($325,869), Marlene Dietrich ($368,000), Bing Crosby ($318,907), Gary Cooper ($311,000). Twentieth Century-Fox Film's Winfield R. Sheehan...