Word: chevrolets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unionists have plagued General Motors and U. A. W. officials ever since they came to terms last month.* Late last week the worst outbreak of unauthorized sit-downs and walkouts to date shut nine G. M. plants in Flint and Pontiac, including the big Flint plant which makes all Chevrolet motors. A few of the strikes were in protest against discharge of union employes, but most were ostensibly called because rank & file hotheads felt they were not getting enough representation on shop committees, that their grievances were not being settled quickly enough. Thoroughly out of patience...
Hotly embarrassed, President Martin and his lieutenants whirled from plant to plant, persuaded their men to come out. go back to work, but a fresh sit-down this week closed Chevrolet's steering gear plant at Saginaw. With confidence in their authority badly shaken, U. A. W. leaders resorted to straight capitalistic tactics, blamed their troubles on communists, promised a union purge...
...Some Chevrolet malcontents have also resorted to the "slow down" cutting production from 400 to 250 units per hr. by stopping work at regular intervals...
...witness chair sat one William H. Martin, a slick-haired young onetime Pinkerton operative, now unemployed. In 1935, he said, he was sent to Toledo to work on the Chevrolet strike then in progress. He was assigned, he recalled, to shadow "a man named McGrady, a Government mediator...
...Chevrolet assembly plant, seized in last week's rioting, was not included in G. M.'s petition for the injunction...