Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stanley Steamers were sold. In the main, however, they devoted themselves to storage and repairing of all makes of cars. Among their earliest Harvard customers were Professor Kennedy, Vincent Astor, Robert Goelet, the Cudahy Brothers, Morgan Belmont, Frederick Prince, the Iselens, and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. In 1913, the Ford Motor Company, who up to this time had not built either the Cambridge or Somerville assembly plants, rented space for thirty-five cars, and made Mr. William E. Furniss an agent. The following year, the Ford Company decided that they would retail cars through dealers, and accordingly signed up the Harvard...
...beginning of a true democracy of labor may be seen in the constructive program of peace in the motor industry set forth by President Roosevelt...
Today the set-up promised as a result of the avoidance of a strike in the motor industry points the way to peace in the labor world. The problems are by no means all settled. Many of them will present new an difficult aspects because both sides will continue to jockey for position. But it is significant that lists of members both of employee unions and A. F. of L. groups must be made public...
...motor car manufacturer's contended for the principle that they should not be dictated to by one union and that the workmen be freed from outside coercion. On this point the motor executives won out, but labor, on the other hand, managed to get the process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...
Whether one agrees with the rightful effort of the A. F. of L. to increase its membership by threatening a strike or whether one sympathizes with the efforts of the motor car companies to retain the right to run their own business without dictation by persons who are not their employees, the fact remains that the public knows little about these big labor controversies and a broad investigation by an impartial tribunal, consisting of Federal Court Judges, would be the best thing that could happen to both capital and labor...