Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United Automobile Workers of America last week showed its muscle by winning exclusive recognition (but no closed shop) from the Briggs Manufacturing Co. in Detroit, called off a strike which had tied up Chrysler and Lincoln plants as well, by depriving them of Briggs auto bodies (TIME, June 12). Having just taken his minority U. A. W. back into A. F. of L., President Homer Martin thereupon displayed his muscle. He demanded that big General Motors recognize his union to the exclusion of C. I. O., called a strike in three G. M. plants and threatened more...
...Martin had some luck at one of the subsidiary Fisher Body Corp.'s two plants in strike-worn Flint, Mich., little luck elsewhere. "A complete failure," chortled C. I. O.'s Auto-President Roland Jay Thomas...
...curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
These goings-on in Detroit last week were in connection with a strike against big, rich Briggs Manufacturing Co., which makes automobile bodies for Chryslers, Plymouths, Dodges, De Sotos, Packards, Lincolns. Because of the strike Chrysler Corp. had to close ten of its plants in Michigan and Indiana, the Lincoln (Ford) plant was closed in Detroit and 70,000 employes were idle, including those of parts suppliers dependent upon the automakers...
...Conciliator James F. Dewey with the help of Ford's Harry Bennett, whose company is a Briggs customer, got hitherto stubborn Briggs executives into a more cooperative frame of mind. Able, amiable Mr. Dewey then succeeded in settling most of the specific grievances which had caused the strike...