Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This strained and unnatural situation was resolved last week when G. M. President Sloan capped Leader Lewis' blunder with one of his own. After winning much public sympathy by his reasonableness throughout the strike, Mr. Sloan decided to get tough, flatly rejected Secretary of Labor Perkins' summons to a further Washington peace parley. As if they were playing a game of "Going to Jerusalem," a second principal in the deadly serious Automobile War of 1937 lost his seat in the New Deal's favor...
Battle Front conditions, however pleasing they might seem to John Lewis, were actually growing uglier every day. Some 40,000 of G. M.'s nonstriking employes went back to part-time work last week without violence. But in strike-bound Flint, the anti-strike Flint Alliance turned out 8.000 citizens for a mass meeting at which John Lewis and other strike leaders were truculently abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed...
These flare-ups were reported as signs of rising non-union resentment against the strike. Another explanation of them was last week being explored in Anderson by three government agencies. Secretary Perkins dispatched an investigator after a U. A. W. vice president swore that G. M. superintendents and foremen had led the Anderson mob, were doing all they could to intimidate strikers, stir up violence against them...
...Dick Frankensteen made the acquaintance of another Dodge employe named John Andrews. The two were soon fast friends. Frankensteen had no automobile, so Andrews drove him to work and to union meetings. Many an hour they spent talking union business. Andrews was hotheaded, always complaining, wanting to call a strike and urging violence. Frankensteen had to cool him off, warning that too great militancy might wreck their young union...
...Coast, and demonstrate his power, refused arbitration conferences then, and persisted in having his "basic demand" of the closed shop granted before any arbitration began. Instead of the active opposition used in 1934 the owners pursued a policy of watchful waiting, hoping the public would soon sicken of a strike which bade fair to dry up city after city on the Pacific Coast. The public, however, lulled into lethargy by such gilded phrases as "economic royalists", and "well warmed capitalists in well warmed clubs" that were on the lips of the winning candidates in the last election, was slow...