Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a young David union attacks a big Goliath industry it takes a careful aim. Last week the United Automobile Workers of America, out to organize the motor industry, concentrated its attack on a plant making parts and accessories. Without carburetors, starters, brakes, the country's great assembly lines must come to a halt...
...Steel, so in Motors is C. I. O. pressing its unionization drive. While Philip Murray, Secretary & Treasurer of United Mine Workers, was speaking last week for the union at motor plants near Detroit, the Chrysler, General Motors and Packard companies all gave wage boosts or bonuses to their workers...
...What motor makers can do in slow seasons is to build up inventories of parts, particularly sub-assembly jobs like axles, motors, transmissions. Notable have been the results. In 1934 at the bottom of the production curve when output was running about 20,000 cars per week, the industry was providing less than 8,500,000 man-hours of work per week. Last year the worst figure, when production was at almost the same level, was 12,000,000 man-hours per week. Total work provided by "banking" in the past motor year is estimated...
Labor into Unions? Not a motor maker but a Labor sympathizer once described Detroit as a "workingman's paradise." Automobile plants are clean, well-ventilated, scientifically lighted and entirely lacking in the sound & fury of, say, a steel mill. The speed of assembly and subassembly lines is not that pictured by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times. Chief complaint is not the monotony of putting a washer on a bolt or a tire on a wheel eight hours on end but a peculiar nervousness which comes from having to do it within a limited time, even if that time...
...autumn of 1933 a tool & die makers' strike tied up most of the industry, many a model at the 1934 show being practically handmade. The strike in the Chevrolet transmission plant in Toledo two years ago temporarily crippled the entire Chevrolet organization. Since that experience General Motors has done what Henry Ford did previously-made sure of at least two sources of supply. The haunting fear of possible famine had something to do with the motor industry's new-found interest in banking parts...