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After the Oshawa strike had lasted through 16 days of negotiation it ended in the workers winning a 44-hr, week with very slightly higher pay-and in a most curious agreement. Since neither their employers nor "Mitch" would treat with any workers affiliated however remotely with C. I. O., and since all the strike leaders by this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn...
William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...
...General Motors of Canada employes continued peacefully on strike at Oshawa, Ont. last week, asking recognition of C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, and as Ontario's blatant Premier Mitchell F. ("Mitch") Hepburn continued roaring belligerently that he would never let the "paid foreign agitators" of C.I.O. get a foothold in Canada (TIME, April 19), G. M. and U.A.W. officials met in Detroit, agreed to let their Canadian affiliates get together with the Premier and work out a strictly Canadian settlement. That seemed to save face all around, since "Mitch" Hepburn and G. M. of Canada could claim that...
...Homer Martin blew hot on the possibility of a sympathetic G. M. strike in the U. S. Over the week-end things were tense, but this week President Martin went to Washington to consult with his C.I.O. elders, and talk of a U. S. strike abruptly died down. In Oshawa, however, the strikers by unanimous vote turned down the first settlement terms arrived at by their own leaders in conference with the company...
...Premier responded: "I'm not going to attempt to reply to all the abuses which Mr. Martin at Oshawa heaped upon the head of the Government here. Suffice to say that they were in poor taste. "What would the people of the country from which he comes think and say if one of our labor leaders went over there and openly attacked the Governor of a State or, for that matter, the President? They'd be apt to take him for a ride on a rail. "Mr. Martin is riding about in a private plane while the people...