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...production last week reached 69,599 units v. 45,387 the week before, and prospects are for a production of 75,000 this week. Production was still held back by wildcat strikes at General Motors, but other carmakers hiked schedules. Chrysler hopes to increase production 15% this week. Ford's Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln division plans a 40% hike, and Studebaker-Packard scheduled a 50% rise; with Ramblers running off the line at an alltime peak, American Motors raised schedules...
...wildcat strikes that cut auto output were being gradually settled, auto production was starting up. Last week Ward's reported weekly car output at 45,003 units, v. 34,834 the week before. Chrysler production was rescheduled at 60% and Ford 25% ahead of the previous week. General Motors had not produced a car since Oct. 2, but this week at least two G.M. plants, the main Olds plant at Lansing, Mich, and the Buick-Olds-Pontiac plant at Wilmington, Del., are scheduled to get back into production...
...Atlantic run with revenue passengers when BOAC's Comet IV three weeks ago began a weekly London-New York run. BOAC hoped to follow up its head start by beginning daily New York-London flights on Nov. 14. Last week BOAC's Comets were grounded by a wildcat strike of maintenance workers that stopped all BOAC flights out of London Airport. The strike was called by longtime Communist Union Leader Sid Maitland after five maintenance men said they were fired for refusing to work overtime, the climax of a long dispute over wages. If the strike continues...
...some giving on key points. Chrysler, traditionally plagued by the industry's poorest labor relations, agreed to grant greater preference to high-seniority workers when rehiring. In return, the U.A.W. accepted a cutback in company-paid union stewards and a tougher no-strike clause to prevent the wildcat walkouts that have hit Chrysler hard for the past three years...
...date this week for a strike, unless the Big Three fatten their six-month-old offer of a two-year contract extension. At week's end Reuther himself rejoined the contract talks for the first time since June 1, and both sides appeared optimistic. But wildcat strikes also continued to spread. Some 27,000 workers had walked off the job, by far the largest number since auto industry contracts expired 14 weeks...