One afternoon last week, members of C. I. O.'s Utility Workers Organizing Committee in the Zilwaukee, Mich, plant of the Consumers Power Co. calmly evicted the superintendent and sundry non-C. I. O. workers, manned the gates to the plant and announced they were on strike.
During the course of the evening, the same procedure was repeated in half-a-dozen distributing stations of Consumers Power, a subsidiary of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. By morning, the switches controlling current for 1,000,000 consumers in the highly industrialized Saginaw Valley were completely under the control of the...
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