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While Briggs and Motor Products do not compete in the accessory trade they do have one thing in common: labor trouble. Indeed, Detroit newspapers no longer consider a Briggs strike news until it approaches in violence the 1933 walkout which forced Henry Ford to shut down. In the opinion of Labor, working conditions in the Briggs plants are a disgrace to Detroit. When Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy was Detroit's mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike...
...fuse which for two months has been burning slowly but inevitably toward a major charge of maritime dynamite. Last week the explosion finally came. Led by Longshoreman Harry Bridges, 37,000 men of seven unions affiliated with the powerful Maritime Federation of the Pacific started a general waterfront walkout on the Pacific Coast...
Last week the American Newspaper Guild's seven-month strike of 24 editorial workers against William Randolph Hearst's Milwaukee Wisconsin News came to a peaceful conclusion. Only twelve Guildmen had stuck it out since the February walkout. In Manhattan, General Manager Harry M. Bitner of the Hearstpapers insisted: "The Wisconsin News has accorded no recognition . . . made no settlement with the Guild. The Guild has simply called off its strike." Nevertheless, many an observer felt that, while the Guild had scored no knockout in Milwaukee, it had certainly won a victory of a sort on points...
...nation's first general strike paralyzed Seattle for five days in February 1919. In the summer of 1934 a million citizens felt the cold edge of panic when trade unionists crippled commercial activity in the San Francisco area for three days. Following a city-wide walkout last July, Terre Haute was under martial law for six and a half months. And last week the fourth general strike in U. S. history was called at Pekin, Ill. It lasted only 22 hours, affected less than 3,000 workers. Yet Strike Leader Frank S. Mahoney's conduct of this small...
...ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general strike last year and Seattle's in 1919, a strikeout. Still" on hand when it was over were the 58 armed company guards whose injection into a strike at a local enamel plant had led to the general walkout...