Word: pontiacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular I would like to add a codicil for accuracy: Mayor Knagg's motley army carried no guns when it broke the picket line, save half a dozen who toted their own side arms. Shotguns and deer rifles appeared on the scene later Thursday when the vanguard of Pontiac's threatened invasion straggled into town. American Legion members, who were patrolling the streets while the mayor's special officers were still guarding the road to the mill, ran home for their guns when an Associated Press bulletin brought the word of the Pontiac mobilization. Several hundred armed...
...Other merchandisers of tear gas: Pacific Arms Corp., San Francisco; Certified Burglar Alarm System, Detective Publishing Co. and Lachyrite Corp., Chicago; Manville Mfg. Co., Pontiac, Mich.; Diebold Safe & Lock Co., Canton, Ohio; Lake Erie Chemical Co., Cleveland; Duncan Chemical Co., Manhattan...
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...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
...Spontaneous" sit-downs of dissatisfied unionists have plagued General Motors and U. A. W. officials ever since they came to terms last month.* Late last week the worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly...