Word: michigan
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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...
...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 ownership of the stock, assailed the union leaders as "irresponsibles.'" The county bar association denounced Homer...
...judge in Michigan who works part time in a General Motors plant . , . is a member of the United Automobile Workers of America and is interested in the success of the strike. Union lawyers appear before this judge and he grants them a petition directing General Motors officials to bargain collectively with the union. . . . What would General Motors officials do when the injunction was served upon them? First, they would probably laugh and say to the sheriff, "Don't be silly, that judge holds a union card." And on sober second thought they would probably get mad and want...
...philanthropy of the sponsors, is being extended to the college public at greatly reduced rates. Such was the fame of the earlier semi-private concern, that a letter was received at a late hour last night from one Mrs. Dexa C. Coryelle, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, stating that she was thinking of founding a similar bureau for their university, and asking for administrative particulars, and a copy of the double standard. For the latter she was referred to the Bureau of Weights and Measures...
...having shown conspicuous ability in all manner of jobs during and after Detroit's banking crisis, Charles Thomas Fisher Jr., a Republican, was last year named a director of Reconstruction Finance Corp. by Franklin Roosevelt. Last week President Roosevelt "reluctantly" permitted his great & good friend Frank Murphy, Michigan's new Governor, to take this banker son of one of the seven body-building Fisher brothers of Detroit away from RFC, make him the State's Banking Commissioner...