Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorandum explaining the strike, "silk is the most chaotic." That chaos, as most silkmen know, has been the result of an unintegrated industry composed of a few large mills and myriads of minuscule establishments, some of them no more than family shops. The industry's average silk plant has only 68 workers (compared with 296 in cotton mills, 236 in woolens). Shops open and close overnight. And of late a new jobster has cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often with one dingy office and no plant, who contracts for raw goods and farms out throwing...
Also unexpectedly peaceful last week were union activities in Detroit. Recalling the thoroughgoing licking a number of its unionists received at Ford Co.'s River Rouge plant last May when they attempted to distribute leaflets, United Automobile Workers, planning to distribute more literature, last fortnight applied for legal protection from the city of Dearborn, were informed that U. A. W. was a "legal nonentity" (TIME, Aug. 16).* Last week, guarded by State police who were on hand at the request of Michigan's Governor Murphy, 800 U. A. W. unionists showed up outside the gates of the Ford...
...Legal Nonentity." United Automobile Workers of America asked the City of Dearborn for "legal protection" next time it wanted to hand out union literature at the Ford Motor Co. plant. Dearborn's Attorney James E. Greene denied the ap plication. His opinion...
...Sisal hemp, or henequen, is a fibrous plant used for twine, cordage, etc., second only to manila hemp in strength. Last year Yucatan's 250,000 acre henequen plantations produced one-third of the world's needs...
During Hupp's long night its engineering staff stayed on at the closed plant, hopefully working out a new model for production if and when. During the last two months about 450 workers, many of them old Hupp men, have been hired to get the plant ready for full production. This week the new Hupmobile comes off the assembly line in two models, a six, selling for under $1,000 and an eight, listed at around $1,200. President Bradey, whose vacationing this summer has been limited to Sundays with his family in their Ontario cottage, figures that...