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More serious was the outbreak of many "spontaneous" sit-downs, unsponsored by responsible labor leaders. The big Chevrolet plant at Flint has had no less than 42 brief sit-downs, unauthorized by the union, since the General Motors strike was settled a month ago. In the midst of the negotiations with Walter Chrysler, Homer Martin had to break off to telephone to Bay City, Mich, to put a stop to an unauthorized sit-down in a General Motors plant there. There was more than one report that John L. Lewis considered Homer Martin himself not sufficiently coolheaded. At the settlement of the General Motors strike Homer Martin was not even on the scene and there were predictions last week that someone whom Leader Lewis considered more reliable would eventually head the automobile union. Union leaders, like industrialists, were hoping that a little quinine of common sense would abate the strike fever.
*Biggest nonindustrial U. S. mob scene last week was the gathering of 53,000 eggrollers on the White House lawn.