Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less than 50 key U. A. W. employes "sat down" in Fisher Body Plant No. 2 at Flint, Mich., thereby closing their plant and curtailing operations in the companion Chevrolet plant which depends on it for bodies. Few hours later a sit-down at Flint's Fisher Plant No. i closed it and crippled the Buick assembly plant which it supplies. Out of work in Flint alone were 14,600 General Motors employes; the local U. A. W. organizer called for $100,000 to finance the strike. Followed sit-downs in G. M.'s Guide Lamp Division...
...lead his United Mine Workers in a strike against the nation's soft coal operators, few observers believed that he would also risk a head-on clash with great G. M. Hence there was reason last week to believe U. A. W. assertions that the burgeoning G. M. sit-down strikes were, at least in part, spontaneous outbursts of old grievances against G. M. labor policies...
...facts are that, as already stated, Briggs has lost no production in the last four years on account of labor trouble in its plants; only one sit-down has occurred; that was among a small group of employes who sat down for 15 minutes because they were uncertain as to whether or not wage increases already decided upon were going to benefit them...
...degree. The Briggs contention that it has had "no labor trouble" is at variance with statements of the militant United Automobile Workers of America, now on the warpath to organize the motor industry and concentrating on just such key plants as Briggs. U. A. W. claim there were 51 "sit-downs" in 50 days at one Briggs plant, the last occurring...
...them there. A tendency for such papers to become scattered about and even blow out into the garden was a feature of the last reign, and new King George last week was a very great comfort to the British Cabinet in this respect. When His Majesty is asked to sit down and sign a paper by his Principal Private Secretary, the King first observes whether it is the paper it is supposed to be, duly forwarded for royal signature by the proper British authorities, and then His Majesty signs it with his right hand, having broken himself after years...