Word: lite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article entitled 'Peace over Toledo" you outline the settlement made in the Auto-Lite strike [TIME, June 11]. So that your information may be accurate we are pleased to enclose copy of the agreement...
...KELLY Vice President The Electric Auto-Lite Co. Toledo, Ohio...
...report TIME erred in four major points. 1) TIME said Electric Auto-Lite Co. agreed to "rehire first those who did not strike, then the strikers, then men employed prior to the strike, last (and probably not at all) the strikebreakers." Fact: The company promised to rehire all strikers within a week. In case of layoffs, the company promised to discharge first those men who were hired since Feb. 23, which includes strikebreakers. 2) TIME said: "Workers will be represented by officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers...
Toledo, The Electric Auto-Lite Co. makes electrical equipment for many a big motor manufacturer. Last February the United Automotive Workers Federal
Labor Union demanded a closed shop and a 20% wage increase. Auto-Lite agreed to a 5% wage increase and negotiation of other questions. Six weeks ago, with nothing more settled, the union struck. To outsiders it looked as if the union had picked Auto-Lite to open its drive to capture the whole motor industry. The company continued operating, hired other workmen. Wrathful strikers picketed in vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their...