Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puts the number closer to 150,000. Without allowance for the usual exaggeration of union claims, his membership was still a decided minority of the industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves content with their lot, anxious to keep on working. President Martin cried "vigilantes" at the Flint Alliance, denounced Leader Boysen as a onetime G. M. paymaster, accused G. M. of obtaining...
...enmity of the American Federation of Labor, with which John Lewis and his "rebel"' C. I. O. unions are now contesting for the mastery of U. S. Labor (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante). In Detroit and Cleveland, city labor councils voted to back the U. A. W. strike. But local councils are small potatoes in the A. F. of L. patch of jealous craft unions. First Federation gun was fired last week when the Cleveland heads of the Plumbers', Machinists', Electrical Workers' and Bricklayers' unions sent Fisher Superintendent Scafe a joint letter denouncing...
...only friendly [to U. A. WJ] but 100% organized," while Chrysler, Hudson and Packard were "fair" to the union. These revelations strengthened Washington reports that John L. Lewis had no intention of trying to tie up the whole automobile industry, since G. M.'s resistance to a long strike would obviously be weakened if its competitors were able to seize its markets. If this was Leader Lewis' strategy, however, he was would have to end promptly the C. I. O. strikes which last week continued to keep U. S. plate glass production almost at a standstill (TIME...
...judge in Michigan who works part time in a General Motors plant . , . is a member of the United Automobile Workers of America and is interested in the success of the strike. Union lawyers appear before this judge and he grants them a petition directing General Motors officials to bargain collectively with the union. . . . What would General Motors officials do when the injunction was served upon them? First, they would probably laugh and say to the sheriff, "Don't be silly, that judge holds a union card." And on sober second thought they would probably get mad and want...
Most uproar was caused, almost before President Kern mounted the rostrum, by a proposal to do something about Judge Edward D. Black's strike injunction at Flint. After much discussion punctuated by cheers and hisses, tabling and enabling votes, the proposal was tabled on grounds that the National Lawyers Guild really did not yet exist...