Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . The Feb. 15 issue of TIME carries an article with regard to my endorsement of Lucky Strike cigarets that sets a new high in newsgarbling. Whether TIME erred or was misinformed is of no consequence. The facts are these: I smoke Luckies, and have smoked them for years. I have seen them made at the Lucky Strike factory at Durham, N. C. Occasionally I do smoke other cigarets, but the big majority of my smokes are Lucky Strikes and I prefer them-a fact which is well known to my friends...
When the Lucky Strike people, knowing the above facts, asked me for a statement, and offered me compensation for permission to use that statement in their advertising, I was glad to give it to them. I see no indignity in being connected with truthful advertising...
...witness chair sat one William H. Martin, a slick-haired young onetime Pinkerton operative, now unemployed. In 1935, he said, he was sent to Toledo to work on the Chevrolet strike then in progress. He was assigned, he recalled, to shadow "a man named McGrady, a Government mediator...
...harvest of bitter strikes which General Motors rasped this winter started some second thought in its councils, which led to the dismissal of the agency. This public pillory of one company must be impelling the others to reconsider the wisdom of bossing the workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors...
...Mexico City, just after the signing of the treaty of peace had given California to the U. S., came news of a great gold strike there. In Paris the last of the Bourbons signed his abdication, and the gale of revolution that swept Europe ended the age of Metternich. The first carload of grain came by rail into Chicago...