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...Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...
...provoking violence. Hugging this advantage, General Martin refused to call out his sit-downers until G. M. should promise in writing not to remove dies and machinery during negotiations. This General Knudsen would not do. At week's end negotiations collapsed. This week General Knudsen & staff commenced a "sitdown" of their own, General Martin flew to Washington to confer with Generalissimo Lewis...
Ended by recognition of their United Automobile Workers union last week was a seven-day "sitdown" by 1,100 workers in the big Bendix accessories plant at South Bend, Ind. (TIME, Nov. 30). Same day the Bendix employes went back to work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...
...before to discuss compromise of his demand for A. F. of L.'s complete surrender on the issue of industrial unionism. Last week the C. I. O. Union News, making a metaphor from the latest method of industrial protest, described the A. F. of L. convention as a "sitdown against Labor...