Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid discord, one thing every United Automobile Worker could agree on, however, was that the first and biggest obstacle in their union path was Henry Ford. The delegates stamped and whistled when Wisconsin's labor-loving Governor Philip Fox La Follette observed: "Henry Ford is probably a nice fellow personally. . . . He just doesn't understand modern trends. He has his feet in 1937 and his head in 1837." Cried Homer Martin: "We'll say 'Henry, if you want to continue to make and sell autos in America, you'd better get ready...
...idea of industrial unionization, which would lump them together with janitors, waitresses, cooks, furnacemen, everyone else who worked around a school. There were plenty of hot words on both sides. Potent pleader foi the A. F. of L. was Henry Ohl Jr., chunky, prey president of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor for two decades. Able, hardworking, a Socialist for 40 years until the Socialists got too deep a shade of red for him, President Ohl has led his State organization into profitable alliances with farmer-labor groups and La Follette progressives. Last week he snorted: "One cannot ride two horses...
...Evidently unity was not the aim of the C. I. O. when, in violation of their own vote, they invaded Wisconsin to take possession of the movement in this State. Their every activity shouted treason to the world. . . The full drama of betrayal, as evidenced by events, exposes a treachery never before perpetrated in the annals of labor anywhere. Existing unions were disrupted by the C. I. O., funds were manipulated into C. I. O. channels wherever this could be accomplished...
...Gaebler, Watertown, Wisconsin--Watertown High School...
Philip R. Gazecki, Menasha, Wisconsin--Menasha High School...