Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan it was estimated last week that 1,000 million dollars, or about one-tenth of the world's entire current rearmament bill, is being spent for fighting aircraft alone. Vice President Howard S. Welch of Bendix Aviation Corp. figured that 62,349 serviceable planes exist today, about one-third of them war planes, and that in 1937 an additional 28,500 planes are being built, four-fifths of them war planes...
Ended by recognition of their United Automobile Workers union last week was a seven-day "sitdown" by 1,100 workers in the big Bendix accessories plant at South Bend, Ind. (TIME, Nov. 30). Same day the Bendix employes went back to work on double shifts, little U.A.W.. out to organize the Automobile industry by striking at its most vulnerable link, the part's makers, called a "sitdown" of 1,200 men in Detroit's Midland Steel Products Co., which makes frame's for Chrysler and Ford...
Paralyzed was Bendix Products Corp.'s big accessory, plant at South Bend, Ind. one morning last week when most of the day shift employes, sitting down at their machines, refused to work. Just before noon Works Manager John P. Mahoney's voice boomed out over the factory public address system, ordered all employes to check in their tools, go home. Most of the 4,300 workers obeyed, but 1,100 sit-downers...
...Bendix workers are divided between a company union and a unit of U. A. W., an affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Last winter the National Labor Relations Board ordered a plant election to decide which union should represent workers in collective bargaining. Bendix refused to countenance the election, got an injunction to back up its refusal. An appeal from that injunction was scheduled for hearing next month when impatient United Automobile Workers, claiming that Bendix was discriminating against them in favor of company union members, last week demanded a closed U. A, W. shop, sat down. Said President...
...South Bend plant Bendix makes brakes for Ford, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Lincoln, Packard, Hudson, Nash, Cord, Auburn; carburetors for Ford, Nash, General Motors, Hudson, Chrysler, Plymouth, Studebaker; other parts for many another U. S. automobile. Last week Bendix could supply none of these customers. Two U. S. Department of Labor conciliators met with Bendix and union representatives to thrash out the differences, interrupted their week-long conferences only to go to the Notre Dame-Northwestern football game...