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Sirs: After our tourist bureaus spent oodles of money advertising that the map of Michigan is the Right Hand of Hospitality Extended you fellows call it the left hand palm-down, in TIME, July 4-5 article on "Electrified Thumb." Helpful, aren't you ? M. JORLING Saginaw, Mich...
During the course of the evening, the same procedure was repeated in half-a-dozen distributing stations of Consumers Power, a subsidiary of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. By morning, the switches controlling current for 1,000,000 consumers in the highly industrialized Saginaw Valley were completely under the control of the C. I. O. union...
...union, one week a year vacation and two weeks' sick leave, all with pay. When the terms were reported in the power houses early one morning the workers were indignant that they had not got 10? an hour raise. Without warning they pulled the switches, leaving Flint, Saginaw, Bay City with their 300,000 inhabitants as well as those of the surrounding countryside without light in their homes or power in their factories. This made even Governor Frank Murphy speak to the strikers severely, and the union negotiating committee hurrying back from Washington by plane told the workers...
Hotly embarrassed, President Martin and his lieutenants whirled from plant to plant, persuaded their men to come out. go back to work, but a fresh sit-down this week closed Chevrolet's steering gear plant at Saginaw. With confidence in their authority badly shaken, U. A. W. leaders resorted to straight capitalistic tactics, blamed their troubles on communists, promised a union purge...
...meeting at which John Lewis and other strike leaders were truculently abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed Cadillac plant. In Saginaw, where anti-strike temper was described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring...