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...picture of Cheyfitz on page one, flatly accused him of starting the strike. Snarled the News: "He is a regular member of Communist caucuses." The reliable Plain Dealer also blamed Cheyfitz for most of the trouble, cited a Dies report that he was "active in the bloody [Electric] Auto-Lite strike in Toledo...
Toledo, with 500-odd industrial plants, had $60,000,000 in prime defense contracts (Willys-Overland, Electric Auto-Lite, Spicer Manufacturing) and $65,000,000 in subcontracts. In a city like Toledo, that is chicken feed. Toledo is chiefly a partsmaker for Detroit; and with Detroit auto production scheduled for a 48.4% curtailment in December, Toledo's 51 parts plants felt the blow first. Auto-Lite had laid off 1,500 men because Chrysler would need fewer ignition systems, batteries, instruments. Of Toledo's 54,600 industrial workers, 4,000 were already out of jobs. In the next...
...bellowed epithets. On through the dingy streets rolled the shiny, new 1941-model cars, past Toledo Machine & Tool Co., the Willys-Overland plant. Outside the heavy-meshed "strike fences" stood mocking, spindle-legged children, hard-muscled men, mustached old women. "Hello, rats!" they shouted. In front of -Electric Auto-Lite Co., scene of bloody labor battles between strikers and National Guardsmen, greybeards shook fists in the car windows. Men held up crudely-lettered signs: "Roosevelt Forever." "Win what with Willkie?" they bellowed. "To hell with Willkie...
...Aircraft and shipbuilders strained to fill war orders, and automakers had a better winter than last. So did Electric Auto-Lite, which makes accessories for all three...
...past few days, reading again in TIME and LITE the accounts of the annual American Legion Convention, I am moved to wonder (as I often have before) by what stretch of the imagination one could justify the cities where those brawls are held in allowing the roughnecks who attend these bawdy annual exhibitions in getting away with them...