Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, Dec. 21, says Briggs and Motor Products "have one thing in common: labor trouble...
...Briggs's "labor trouble" since 1933, the question is one of degree. The Briggs contention that it has had "no labor trouble" is at variance with statements of the militant United Automobile Workers of America, now on the warpath to organize the motor industry and concentrating on just such key plants as Briggs. U. A. W. claim there were 51 "sit-downs" in 50 days at one Briggs plant, the last occurring...
...Milwaukee, President Samuel Alexander Fulton of Fulton Co., a small motor accessory plant, gave his 300 well-behaved employes bonuses totaling $10,000 and, because he is international chaplain of The Gideons, an autographed Bible each...
Most serious threat to the motor industry came last week as the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, demanding more pay, closed shop and check-off of union dues, added 5,600 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in Toledo, Shreveport and Charleston, W. Va., to the 1,300 already striking in Libbey's Ottawa, Ill. plant and 6,000 in five plants of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. U. S. manufacture of plate glass was thus brought virtually to a halt. Between.them, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh make 90% of the nation's plate glass, 85% of its automobile...
While Briggs and Motor Products do not compete in the accessory trade they do have one thing in common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike...