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From Socialist Appeal, Vol. 4 No. 47, 23 November 1940, p. 2.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
FLINT, Mich., Nov. 15. – The hunting season opened today in Michigan and brought about severe crisis in the auto industry.
First of all Charles Weatheraid, GM Board Member in charge of Chevrolet manufacturing at $300,000 a year, was caught red-handed on the multi-millionaire Fisher estate with 81 ducks (which he claims he hit with his own little gun) and is facing a heavy fine and a possible jail sentence for being too greedy and exceeding the limit.
Usually well-informed sources close to Wall street and the Duponts say that Weatheraid’s salary will be cut to $200,000 a year as penalty for his hunting escapade which brought such bad publicity to General Motors, whose executives don’t usually get caught poaching.
At the Fisher Body No. 2 plant in Flint a shutdown occurred today totally stopping production and resulting in the shutdown of Chevrolet assembly plants when almost the entire plant took their guns and went out to bag a deer.
Fisher No. 1 also was seriously affected by the mass migration to the North woods and a production crisis gripped this entire city.
Since this enthusiastic hunting curtails production for “national defense” it is expected a law will soon be passed to forbid workers from hunting anything but German or Japanese workers and other animals on whom Wall Street has declared open season.
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