FORD PLANTS
CLOSURE ANNOUNCED
120,000 MEN AFFECTED
NEW YORK, April 5.
Ford officials announced that the company's 34 assembly branches and branch manufacturing; plants will be shut down as a result of the paralysis at the River Rouge plant. This means that a total of 120,000 Ford workers will be idle in Detroit and elsewhere.
The company has cancelled outstanding orders to suppliers, who normally do a business of 11,000,000 dollars a week with Ford.
Governor Van Wagoners said tonight that the progress of the negotiations has encouraged hopes" of a settlement.
Grave charges of sabotage of aeroplane tools and dies by strikers at River Rouge have been made by company officials, who assert that strikers frocibly seized the tool and die departments and deliberately smashed tool and die parts that are vital to aircraft production, resulting in damage exceeding 100,000 dollars.
The Congress of Industrial Organisations denies the charges and declares that the company is not really interested in defence work except for its use as a propaganda instrument against the strikers. It also asserted that the company has obstructed the union in its desire to carry on the defence projects at River Rouge while the strike is being mediated.
President Roosevelt personally intervened in a threatened stoppage in the United States Steel Corporation's plant by summoning the C.1.0. president, Mr. Murray, to Washington for a conference. There are 250,000 men involved. The C.1.0. called a strike for midnight on Tuesday on the question of increased pay. ____»«_
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 82, 7 April 1941, Page 8
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