Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf!" it cried at the threat of a bloody steel strike...
...Toledo Auto-Lite strike and the Minneapolis truck strike were fought with clubs. The other strikes of 1934 are to be fought with boards. Under his new authority President Roosevelt last week began replacing the old National Labor Board with new and smaller agencies to ease the tension on the industrial front. The first board created was for the biggest current strike; the second was for what threatened to be an even bigger strike...
...represented by officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers to be represented by whichever union they belong to, whether A. F. of L. or the Auto-Lite Council Body (socalled company union). 3) TIME said of the Toledo Edison Co. settlement: "The union was recognized." Fact: The company formally recognized the union more than ten years ago, was completely willing to negotiate with union officials, whether employed by the company or not. 4) TIME said: "Union members were given preference for employment." Fact: Mediator Charles P. Taft II overruled...
...Board of Education sent a telegram to RFC. The Chamber of Commerce wrote a letter. The City Council and the Rotary Club adopted resolutions. At least five other organizations pleaded by telegraph and mail. Thus last week did Toledo get behind a move to push through a $2,000,000 loan from the RFC to Willys-Overland...
Before it fell upon evil days in February 1933 Willys-Overland employed 25,000 workers, was one of Toledo's biggest companies. Since John North Willys and later President David Wilson were appointed receivers, it has employed some 3,000 who are now finishing up production of 7,500 units authorized by the court. Willys-Overland's plight, far from hopeless, is partly due to a deficiency of working capital. Receiver Davis last week declared that unless new capital were forthcoming, the plant would have to shut down. "A calamity!" shrieked the Chamber of Commerce. Its point: Would...