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Detroit's Got 'Em Again.
- Source :
- New Republic; 10/1/1945, Vol. 113 Issue 14, p426-428, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 1945
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Abstract
- The article focuses on the financial crisis in Detroit. Shutdown of the Ford Motor Company, which put 50,000 people out of work; Assertion that lack of material from the Kelsey-Hayes wheel plant in Detroit forced to close the Ford plants; Background of the Kelsey-Hayes strike; Intention of the United Automobile Workers officials to ask the National Labor Relations Board to take a strike vote among the employees of the automobile industry's Big Three, General Motors, Chrysler and Ford; Demand of the Union for a wage increase of 30 percent; View that a strike mandate is a powerful weapon in any wage negotiation; Information that the unions are maintaining that industry can raise wage rates without increasing prices; Question concerning of sharing of industry profits.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 113
- Issue :
- 14
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 14659343