Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparatively pipsqueak strike in St. Louis reached the front page last week solely because the name involved was Henry Ford's. The United Automobile Workers called out the local Ford assembly plant, the principal grievance being alleged discrimination against union members in rehiring, after the seasonal layoff for new models. The plant normally employs only 600 men at this time of year, was making only 60 cars per day before the strike. And in spite of mass picketing by 500 other C.I.O. unionists, the assembly line continued to roll, though at considerably reduced speed. The significant automobile labor news...
...September day, Watchman John. Drexel, whose duties included guarding the closed Chicago stonecutting plant of St. Louis' big Steven & Son, made an excited long distance call to his employers. "The plant has been stolen," gasped Watchman Drexel. "It's gone." Chicago police, after a look at the dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail...
...first Sit-Down in the automobile industry-a protest against a company ban on wearing union buttons-occurred just a year ago in a General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down...
...full executive committee was summoned last week into emergency session, and John L. Lewis dispatched a personal representative to attend. After an all-night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this to his immediate superior by telephone, the underling was connected by mistake with Homer Martin. Leaping from bed the young U. A. W. president, a onetime...
...foxes, he brings the whole countryside down on him. Margaret is killed in an automobile accident the day before the wedding. Mansell sinks his grief into a feud with his neighbors. He hauls trespassers into court, buys up the remaining hunting coverts, announces that he will build a munitions plant, a model community, a machine gun range, a Buddhist temple...