Plants hit this time were Fairfax Kan. (4,100 workers); Janesville, Wis. (4,900 workers); and Arlington, Texas (3,500 workers). All three plants are among the 18 managed by General Motors Assembly Division (GMAD), which has a total of 85,000 workers on its payroll.

The rash of strikes aims not only to disrupt GM production schedules but also to publicly expose and discredit the GMAD product.

In St. Louis, Edward Gregory, a GM inspector for nearly 20 years, charged that the company turn out cars with shoddy paint, wrong parts, and safety violations because it refuses to hire enough workers to do the work properly.

"They cut out so much manpower these guys can't do it," Gregory said. "The cars pile up on the end of the line. We've lost one-third of our inspectors. If you don't have someone to inspect the cars and write up rejection sheets, then the repairmen aren't going to do the work." (Detroit Free Press, Oct. 10.)

November 3, 1947
Sitting in Washington as prosecutor, judge and jury is the Thomas-Rankin Un-American Committee "investigating" the movies. The two-bit politicians in charge are well suited for the task of whipping up the red-hunt and grateful for the opportunity to bask in the limelight. In the name of "Americanism" of the 200% Ku Klux Klan variety they violate the basic civil liberty of freedom of thought, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The truth is, Hollywood is "loyal" - not to the American people - but to Wall Street and the State Department. When World War II preparations started, Hollywood produced war propaganda films. When the White House and the Kremlin got together, appropriate propaganda films such as Mission to Moscow were ground out, giving the Stalinist version of the Moscow Trials, endorsed at that time by the State Department. As the current drive for war against the Soviet Union swings into high, we learn that Hollywood is already busy preparing anti-Russian films as its contribution to atomic destruction.

The Hollywood "probe" started off with open recommendation from Representative Thomas to the Hollywood employers that they fire and blacklist all "communist" employers.  
 
 
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