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...Lewis' mimeograph when it appeared that he had made a tactical blunder in advertising quite so blatantly that he was on the march. First, and least important from Mr. Lewis' standpoint, Messrs. Sloan and Knudsen promptly walked out and abandoned their conference with Governor Murphy and Madam Secretary Perkins. Mr. Sloan declared that after Mr. Lewis' demand it was "futile" to continue. The press, including many liberal papers generally sympathetic with Mr. Lewis, expressed its disapprobation. The genteel New York Times said: "Mr. Lewis had a full supply of impudence with him." If President Roosevelt had been...
Instead of peace negotiations General Motors and the union returned to recriminations, and Madam Secretary Perkins mused aloud in Washington: "I have faith and hope...
...necessary for me to go to Detroit," said Madam Secretary Perkins, looking anxiously down her nose. Cause of her anxiety was an all-night fracas between police and strikers in the General Motors strike at Flint, Mich, which had sent a score of casualties to the hospital (TIME, Jan. 18). Not anxious but indignant was Strike Leader Homer Martin who had flown to Washington. Said he: "The blood-spilling in Flint by hired Hessians of General Motors is a demonstration of what Mr. Alfred Sloan means by collective bargaining." Newshawks on the scene, however, confirmed General Motors' contention that...
...Soon Madam Perkins learned, however, that her anxiety was needless. In the small hours of the morning Governor Frank Murphy had arrived in Flint. "This is not going to be a brawl," he announced, and issued a call to the National Guard. Soon 2,300 Guardsmen were in Flint, most of them camping on the grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty...
...Jack Curtis, producer) is a melodrama based on the mechanics of organized harlotry as illumined in the Manhattan trial of a squint-eyed vice tycoon named Charles ("Lucky'') Lucania (TIME, June 15). One character definitely not drawn from the Lucania dossier is a noble-hearted ''madam" who sheds a steady stream of sweetness & light, tries to dissuade new girls from becoming prostitutes before permitting them to do so, refuses to be coerced by the vice ring and connives with the authorities to smash it. Near the end of this pusillanimous fable she is fatally wounded...