Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued open shop, Chrysler will continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler's 58,000 workers, dropped to 5?, got 3? (plus additional raises for 5,000 in special classifications). Total annual wage increase: about...
...high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts assembly line-because, said the management, girls further up the line had not paid union dues. By management orders, Dodge shut...
...rather than the Wagner Act. Recovered from the factional strife which nearly destroyed the union last year, C. I. O.'s U. A. W. was in fettle for a drag-out fight with Chrysler. After that, great G. M. also might be called on to let its workers slowdown by agreement, or see them slowdown by conspiracy on the assembly line...
...Current slowdown was variously attributed to uncertainty over the new Congress, worry over international squabbles, timidity engendered by the start of the "opoly" hearings. More tangible is the point that the Government's spending, even though operating at a level $400,000,000 greater than last year, is again proving to be a mere teaser. All this greatly amused Germany's Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. With German industrial production up 100% in five years, he took occasion in a Berlin speech to praise a "directed economy," crack that Germany had not needed to "finance consumption through...
LONDON -- Adolf Hitler suddenly opened the door to peace today, at almost the exact hour he had set to send his armies smashing into Czechoslovakia, by calling Europe's "big four" to meet in Munich tomorrow for a slowdown between the dictators and the democracies...