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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...
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...
With the passage of time the number of strikes which feature the newspaper headlines becomes increasingly numerous, Toledo being the latest storm center, where several thousand workers at the Electric Auto Lite Company have staged a walkout and picketed the factory. The Toledo strike, however, introduces a new note in the wave of protest by organized labor concerning wages, which has been sweeping the country with mounting force since the organization of N.R.A...