Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret putting me on the street. When I work nine hours a day I'm too tired at night to think much about union organization. But things will be different now. I'll start working immediately and I'll not stop until every General Motors plant is organized...
Chiefly because the bulk of its workers were unskilled or semiskilled, floating from plant to plant and city to city during seasonal layoffs, the automobile industry never had a union worth mentioning until the Blue Eagle was hatched in 1933. The A. F. of L., Homer Martin soon discovered, was really interested only in preserving the power & privilege of its unions of skilled craftsmen, which had no place for the automobile working masses. He went along, nonetheless, and when automobile locals were merged into a United Automobile Workers International Union, he was appointed vice president. Young, educated, eloquent...
Laymen got some idea of the magnitude and complexity of G. M.'s production mechanism when it was calculated that closing of the Flint plant which makes Chevrolet motors would force closing, whether workers had struck or not, of Chevrolet assembly and parts plants in Detroit, Saginaw and Bay City, Mich.; Toledo and Norwood, Ohio; St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo.; Janesville, Wis.; Oakland, Calif.; Buffalo and Tarrytown, N. Y.; Atlanta, Ga.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Bloomfield...
Labor v. Labor. "There will be no violence," promised Governor Murphy when he entered the strike as mediator last week. "The day of violence in labor disputes has passed in the United States." Same day in Cleveland, pickets tried to keep a Fisher Body manager out of his plant. When police tried to clear a path, an officer was knocked down, two picketers were hurt and bruised...
Three days later violence flared up in Governor Murphy's State. In Flint's Chevrolet assembly plant, non-union workmen faced with loss of their jobs because of the strike listened resentfully to the voice of a U. A. W. organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front...