Word: pontiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most disgraceful jurisdictional strike in U.S. labor history closed two Michigan war plants last week and crippled a third. The cause was fantastic: a fight between C.I.O. and A.F. of L. for control of Pontiac's grocery clerks...
Because the C.I.O. clerks won a contract, the A.F. of L. threw picket lines around Pontiac's 200 independent groceries. The teamsters, their colleagues, then refused to make deliveries across the line. The stores had to close...
...retaliation, the C.I.O. clerks put pickets around war plants. At Pontiac...
...margin of 78 votes separated Alcorn from his nearest competitor, Keene, but between the second and 10 place men was a gap of only 35 tallies. The top man hails from Pontiac, Michigan and Weld Hall, and is one of the two members of the Union Committee named to the new board. Alcorn was in charge of the recent Freshman fete, the Frolics...
...Dodge, all Chrysler and G.M.'s Chevrolet and Pontiac assembly lines stopped for the duration last week. Others will dribble along for another week or ten days. Chrysler figured 40,000 of its men would be temporarily idle, G.M. 120,000. But Conversion Tsar Ernest Kanzler thinks Detroit alone will have 600,000 war jobs by year...