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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Philadelphia, the John B'. Stetson hat plant shut down last week when 2,500 members of United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers, a C. I. O. union, walked out for a 25% pay raise, union recognition, better working conditions...
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...
...auto trimmer. When Owner Barney Everitt and two friends started the E. M. F. Co. (motor cars), Mr. Everitt did not think it altogether ethical to run a competing business of his own, so he made a deal with his able employe, Walter Briggs, to take over the trimming plant, which was soon called Briggs Mfg. Co. It went on painting and trimming bodies until after the War, when Mr. Briggs decided he could make better ones himself...