Word: saginaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Castings: No Autos. Big business was not much better off. The auto industry may go on a three-day week. Ford had already laid off more than 45,000 men. General Motors Corp., after scouting feverishly, found enough coal to keep open its big foundry at Saginaw, Mich, for another five days. If the Saginaw plant shuts down, all Chevrolet production in the Flint-Detroit area (about 38,000 workers) would stop within a week for lack of castings. Iron-foundrymen, supplying parts for autos, farm implements, housing and a long list of other scarce products, saw widespread closings only...
...Saginaw, Mich., L. Richmond & Sons is making a 16½-ft., 60-lb. canoe...
...second week of the General Motors strike wore away, feelings grew more bitter. The C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers set up an outdoor soup kitchen in Detroit to keep its pickets warm. In Saginaw, someone threw bricks through the windows of a company officer's house; the union called it an attempt to smear the union...
...same story, at the same hour, in other sections of Detroit, at Fleetwood Plant, at Chevrolet Gear & Axle. It was the same at the iron foundry in Saginaw, at Fisher Body Plant in Flint, at Delco-Remy in Muncie, Ind., at Delco Radio in Kokomo. It was the same at the warehouses in Los Angeles and Denver, at 80 G.M. plants in more than 50 cities in 19 states. A button had been pushed in Detroit and 175,000 U.S. men & women laid down their tools. Reconversion would have to wait...
...need of such toughness. It was the heartland of a new flurry of strikes which extended from the Pacific Northwest lumber industry to a toolmakers' plant in Rhode Island. Detroit itself was almost without bread as the result of a walkout of 1 ,000 bakery drivers. In nearby Saginaw, Mich., 2,800 workers were out in three Chevrolet plants, as a result of a fight over a no-smoking rule. Usually mild Charles Erwin Wilson, president of vast General Motors, said Detroit was approaching "industrial anarchy...