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A G. M. Stockholder Visits Flint
Lovett, Robert Morss | January 30, 1937 issue

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In this article, the author who is owner of a few shares of the General Motors Corp. describes his visit to the company in the U.S. He was alarmed on learning that the workers were sitting down in plants at Flint, Fisher Body No. 1 and Fisher Body No. 2, preventing the company from finishing and shipping cars and threatening to interrupt the orderly flow of dividends. The sitdown strike involving 1,500 to 2,000 workers started at Fisher 1, when it appeared that the management was loading dies and special machinery into box cars to be shifted to other cities. The workers demanded the industrial form of organization and insisted on dealing with General Motors as a whole instead with the component companies.

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STRIKES & lockouts; GENERAL Motors Corp.; AUTOMOBILES -- Equipment & supplies; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR movement; SIT-down strikes; UNITED States
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