Fisher Strike

In Flint, Mich., last fortnight State Troopers bashed striking employes of Fisher Body Division of General Motors Corp. with clubs, arrested 23 men and two women. The strikers said they were angry because of wage reductions. The company maintained that no reductions had been made or contemplated. According to the strike committee, men's wages were cut on June 24 from $1 an hour to 40-c- and 50-c- an hour, women's wages in the upholstery department from 65-c- to 75-c- an hour to $1.12 and $1.20 per day. According to the company, changes in design and construction had necessitated adjustments throughout the company's payroll to keep the average daily earnings of each trade at the established level, but no changes had been made for the employes who walked out.

After the holiday weekend, about half the strikers returned to work.

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