In the motor industry, July is a critical month. Then the jigs, dies, tools for next year's models are being completed. As these are finished, the comparatively few, highly skilled men who make them get their seasonal layoff. Until they are finished, work on the new models cannot proceed down the production line. In giant General Motors, the ratio of tool & die makers to the workers who will later produce parts and assemble cars is about 8,000 to 100,000.
To threaten eventual paralysis of the entire G. M. organism this autumn, pugnacious...
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