MOTOR STRIKE IN U.S.

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21990, 14 January 1937, Page 9

MOTOR STRIKE IN U.S.

COMPANY’S REGRET AT RIOT MEN LEFT IN POSSESSION OF FACTORY (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received January 14, 12.40 a.m.) FLINT, January 13. The police have been withdrawn from the Fisher body plant, leaving the strikers in possession. •, Company officials have issued a statement regretting the battle yesterday. They have turned die heat and hot water back into the plant, and have permitted food to enter. Quiet has replaced violence, with 2000 national guardsmen either here or on the way after their mobilisation throughout the state. The strikers have offered to withdraw from the plant if the company promises not to reopen it with strike breakers, and not to move machinery. The Governor, Mr Frank Murphy, has returned to Lansing, the capital, and has invited Mr W. S. Knudsen, one of the executives of the General Motors Corporation, and Mr Homer Martin, president of the union, to confer with him on Thursday in a new effort to settle the strike. A survey shows that 112,800 of the General Motors Corporation’s employees are idle through strikes or lack of materials. Meanwhile, Mr Lewis, after a conference at Washington with Mr Martin, announced that he intended to ask for a Congressional investigation into the General Motors Corporation because of its failure to grant “true collective bargaining,” and because of the battle at Flint.