Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Word went around that an advertising representative of American Tobacco Co. had persuaded ten U. S. Senators to endorse Lucky Strike cigarets at $1,000 an endorsement. Newshawks scurried here & there buttonholing Senators to pin the story down. They made a lucky strike when they ran into North Carolina's Reynolds. Senator Reynolds, never one to hide his light under a bushel, admitted that he had endorsed Lucky Strikes, collected $1,000. Newshawks were surprised for two reasons: 1) most North Carolinians smoke Camels, their State's most famed product, as a matter of pride; 2) they could...
Crowded out by President Roosevelt's Supreme Court shocker (see p. 16) and the fateful automobile strike in Flint and Detroit (see below), the Great Flood of 1937 seeped off the nation's front pages last week. But for a half-million people along the lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river...
...peak week last December, Goliath General Motors Corp. produced 53,000 automobiles. Last week with all its 69 automobile plants closed or crippled by strikes, the world's largest motor manufacturer turned out a piddling 1,500 units, mostly trucks. The idle bulk of its 135,000 production employes continued last week, the fifth of the strike, to lose around $800,000 per day in wages. For the first time G. M.'s 330.000 stockholders felt the pinch as quarterly dividends were lopped from 50? to 25?-per share...
...more than this crimp in Recovery, however, which caused President Roosevelt to intervene more directly and urgently last week than he has in any strike since he entered the White House. In Flint, after the riots and injunction against sit-downers which began the week (TIME, Feb. 8), the Motor War of 1937 threatened momentarily to explode in the bloodiest labor battle of U. S. history...
Early in the week President Roosevelt called Governor Murphy on the telephone, authorized him to summon the war's opposing generals to a council table in the name of the President of the U. S. Under that pressure, General Motors abandoned its stubborn refusal to negotiate with the strike leaders until they had yielded up its captive plants. Twice had President Sloan rejected similar summonses by Secretary of Labor Perkins, but Executive Vice President Knudsen now wrote to Governor Murphy: "The wish of the President of the United States leaves no alternative except compliance...