WIDESPREAD STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 11

WIDESPREAD STRIKE

MOTOR PLANTS IN U.S.A. THREAT OF ALMOST COMPLETE TIE-UP DETROIT, December 31. The addition of three more General Motors Corporation plants wliere the workers have gone on strike, making a total of twelve plants shut down and involving 33,400 employees, indicates the efforts that are being made to organise the workers in the motor industry, and threatens an almost complete tie-up of automobile manufacturing throughout the country. The union demands recognition of increased wages and 'an adjustment of overtime rates. General Motors has served notice that no conference to discuss collective bargaining will be considered until the sit-down strikers vacate the plants. The president, Mr. Sloan, in a statement, says that the economic stability of the country is threatened by industrial strife, which will be one of the major problems of 1937. Mr. Green, representing the union, in a statement, said that the automobile strike was the fruit of corporate mismanagement. He attacked industrial espionage and the arming of corporations • for industrial strife. He demanded a national conference to make agreements, otherwise labour would "take by storm the barbed-wire barricades and machine-gun emplacements."