Costly Labor War in Automobile Industry Began With Sit-Down Strike
A year ago workers at Fisher body Atlanta began a sit-down strike to protest a rule banning union insignia, starting the costliest labor war in U S auto history. GM plants closed nationwide, 135000 idle at peak, with estimated wage losses around 70 million and delayed business totaling 200 million as production continued.
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Fisher Co
Detroit
Fisher Body
Atlanta
United States
General Motors
Michigan
National Guard
Score General Motors
Automotive industry faces wage pressure and curtailment
The piece notes price resistance and little design change in 1938 models, while security declines plummet. Production schedules are trimmed and some unemployment arises. It cites weak U A W and CIO strikes, predicts few sit downs, and mentions plant shutdowns over minor labor disputes as potential signs of employer stance.
Pickett Mills Community News and Events Roundup
The Quality Club postpones its meeting from Friday November 19 to November 26 due to hospital stays of Mr. Hunt and Mr. Walker. Other notes include Boy Scouts Troop No. 23 meeting at the Community House, a Friday prayer service at 1305 Redding Street, and a Sunshine Club play on November 20 with listed participants.
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Quality Club
Hunt
Walker
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts of
Pickett Mills
Joe Harrelson
Redding Street
Sunshine Clube
Sunshine Club
Margaret Jones
Fannie Hice
Myrtle Reavis
Ethel Grace
Hdna McKinnon
Oleta Hemric
Ruth Reavis
Edith McKinnon
Mable Reavis
Mac Hinshaw
Carl Jones
Edith Hemric
Evelyn Jones
Beatrice Morrison
Mary Steel
Bertie Lee
Greensboro
Lorena Baldwin
Thomasville
Coy Lee
EB. W. Netherland
F. J. Darby
Chester
D. C
J. O. Eliington
Tryon Street
W. H. Troggler
Worthville
N. C
Charlie Waller
Lexington
S. L. Jones
W. A. Hunt
George Hice
Hanes
Callihan
Webb Horne
High Point
Nance Walker
Clarence Christy
Brewer
Jack Johnson
T. B. New
Route 2
Wade Cash
Gastonia
Fannie Embler
Belle Alford
Laura Millem
Roy Ave
Annie Mae Henley
Bessie Hughes
Elsie Pruitt
Pearl Mayes
Lucille Keller
Concord
Lizzie Almond
Mae Swaim
Modified FTC order targets Hanes price fixing schemes
The Federal Trade Commission under the Tydings Miller Act modified a 1925 order against FP and Hanes Knitting Co of Winston Salem North Carolina. The agency banned contracts or understandings with dealers to fix resale prices for Hanes products. The action aligns the order with the act's intrastate commerce provisions used by forty two states.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FP. &. Hanes Knitting Company
Winston-Salem
N. C
Commission
Tydings-Miller
Hanes Company
Man Held on Federal Charge After Evanston Post Office Window Smash
Benjamin F Hutchinson 63 said he sought a clean warm federal penitentiary as he smashed a window at the Evanston suburb post office and was seized by a watchman. He was held to the grand jury on a charge of damaging government property. A stray line notes American boys favor marbles colored blue.
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Chicago
Benjamin F. Hutchinson
Evanston
Hutchinson
Jamestown School Names New Science Teacher
J K Farlowe resigns after years as science teacher to join the Weather Bureau in Charlotte. George A Short is named his successor as science teacher at Jamestown School. The November Parent Teacher Association meets tonight at 7 30 in the school auditorium with a Safety program and a guest speaker.
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Jamestown
J. K. Farlowe
Jamestown School
Government Bureau
Charlotte
Weather Bureau
George A. Short
Parent-Teacher Association of
P. ©. Futrell
Case Against Rhyne For Abortion Goes To Superior Court
J Lamar Rhyne former ministerial student now a school teacher near Brevard NC waived prelim in a charge of attempted abortion on a 16 year old girl taken into his home as a servant. A continuance until May 24 1938 was set on a bastardy charge.
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Mantec
N. C
J. Lamar Rhyne
Rhyne
Brevard
Violent Deaths Hit 190 in North Carolina in October
North Carolina reports 190 October deaths with 102 from auto accidents, 30 suicides, 32 homicides. Births 6,815, deaths 2,681, death rate 9.2, tubercu losis 145 deaths, cancer and pneumonia rising.
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N. C
Raleigh
Bureau of Vital Statistics
The
State Board of Health
Salt Claimant in Oakland Seeks Salt Ocean Possessions
Oakland man Kenneth Sizelove has laid claim to all the salt in the oceans and to all unclaimed inhabitants of the oceans after paying a $1 county record fee. He did not say what he plans to do with the sale name.
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Oakland
Calif
Kenneth Sizelove
Honey stake mystery ties Kansas prediction to stranger
Ed Green bet 60 pounds of honey at a filling station last fall that Alf M. Landon would carry Kansas for the presidency. More than a year later Green found the honey waiting, but still does not know the bettor's name. The note also recalls actress Julia Marlowe born in Caldeck England on August 17, 1870 and brought to America in 1875.
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ST. John
Kas
Diogenes
Ed Green
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Green
Julia Marlowe
Caldeck
Cumberlandshire
England
Sarah Frances Frost
America
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East Green
Jamestown News
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