Word: nashe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well into its second month, a general strike continued last week to paralyze the Nash automobile plants at Kenosha and Racine, Wis. For the second time in a fortnight, differences between representatives of the 4,600 workers and their employers were patched up, only to be renewed again. Nash workers, their pay difficulties straightened out, again raised the issue that they could not go back to work until Seaman Body Corp. (manufacturers of Nash bodies) settled with its workers. In the Detroit area, a strike threatened by the Mechanics Educational Society (tool & die makers) was called. More than...
Whether or not the American people get jitters from the word "strike," the Automobile Labor Board had good cause to worry over the word. The Board, headed by Dr. Leo Wolman, went to Racine, Wis. to settle a six-week strike of 4,600 men in the Nash Motors and Seaman Body plants. It arranged an agreement on the basis of a 10% wage increase. All seemed settled when, at the last minute, strikers voted down the agreement. Meantime the Board had shuttled back to Detroit where trouble had brewed during its absence. A strike for a general wage increase...
...Pontiac and Chevrolet, $65 to $130 on Buick, $35 to $65 on Oldsmobile. Cadillac V-16s went up $300, La Salles $100. Hudsons went up $5 to $75, Graham-Paiges $50, except one model. A few independents left their prices unchanged, including Packard and Nash-and Henry Ford...
Acquitted. Andrew Donaldson Kirwan, 23, son of Mme Paul Dubonnet (Jean Nash), "best dressed woman in Europe"; of a charge of murdering one William Sessoms after a quarrel about religion on the Dollar liner President Garfield (TIME, March 26); by a Federal jury; in Manhattan...
...conferred one day with the manufacturers headed by Alfred P. Sloan. Alvan Macauley, Walter P. Chrysler. Charles W. Nash, Roy D. Chapin. Next day he conferred with A. F. of L. men led by President William Green and William Collins, organizer for the industry. Then for three days General Johnson shuttled from one group to the other trying to arrange a settlement. At the end of the first day General Johnson held up his thumb and forefinger with only a hypothetical peanut between and reported, ''They are just that far apart." At the end of the second...