Word: sigler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Workers' Jim Matles agreed to a similar contract for U.E.'s 40,000 G.M. workers. That fact seemed sure to have an effect on U.E.'s negotiations at Westinghouse and General Electric. Next day, the lyday Chrysler strike was over. Michigan's dapper Governor Kim Sigler dashed from Lansing to his Detroit office, where Chrysler and the U.A.W. had resumed peace talks. A few hours later, Chrysler and the union agreed on a flat 13^ increase. Ford, which had proposed a wage cut, faced a bargaining date with U.A.W. June...
Michigan's ex-cowboy Governor Kim Sigler had been grabbing for leather ever since he first rode triumphantly into the state capital 15 months ago. While voters grumbled that he had fallen flat on his campaign promises, his own Republican state legislature bucked off every reform proposal like an unbroken pony with a burr under the saddle. Last week, on the final night of a wild & woolly special session, Kim Sigler dug in the spurs...
...Cried Sigler: "As it stands now, the only constitutional amendment I have to submit to the people is one to raise your salaries ... I am going to do the only thing that is left for me to do and that is to appeal to the people." He would start immediately, he warned, collecting petitions to place his reorganization program on the ballot next November...
...time Sigler had finished, the legislature was seething with charges and countercharges. Rising up with accusing finger, State Senator William Vandenberg* shouted at his colleagues: "You are the men who killed the governor's program because of your vindictiveness." Snapped one of the accused: "I don't want him, you can have him, he's two-faced...
This week, as Kim Sigler flew south for a ten-day Florida vacation, it seemed that he would have little trouble collecting the 167,000 signatures he needed. But if Michigan Republicans could not get together behind him-and the Democrats could patch up their own internal feuding-there was a good chance that he would not be around to ride herd again after the November elections...