Word: martin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Interested Judge. When G. M. got Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Flint to issue an injunction last fortnight ordering Flint sit-downers to evacuate the two local Fisher Body plants, they hooted down the sheriff who tried to read it to them. Last week General Martin scored by asserting that Judge Black owned 3,665 shares of G. M. stock worth $219,900, petitioning the Michigan Legislature to impeach him for violation of a State law forbidding a judge to sit in any case "in which he is a party or in which he is interested." Judge Black admitted...
More important than these brawls was the non-union bitterness they highlighted. No one, not even President Martin, knew last week how many workers belonged to his Union. Publicly he claims "over 100,000," privately puts the number closer to 150,000. Without allowance for the usual exaggeration of union claims, his membership was still a decided minority of the industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed...
...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...
...Wages. Not even Homer Martin, however, could complain that the automobile industry is a sweated one. Always famed for comparatively high daily pay, it has since 1935 materially increased its workers' yearly earnings by introducing new models in November instead of January, thus leveling off its concentrated production periods and corresponding layoffs. General Motors has twice set aside a $60,000,000 revolving fund to finance slack-season production of parts, thereby upping its workers' annual pay by $400 to $500 apiece. In 1936 the "average" G. M. employe worked 40.2 hours per week, earned 78.6? per hour...