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Washington, D.C., May 18, 1939. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors, before Monopoly Investigating Committee. He was questioned regarding methods used by large corporations in financing their own resources

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GMC Head signs on the dotted line. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S. Knudsen, President of the General Motors Corp., signs a subpoena before appearing before the Monopoly Committee. George C. Arvedson, Counsel for the Automobile Manufacturers Association, looks on

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Class in theory of aviation motors, 10/15/19

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Knudson and Kettering after. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S. Knudsen, right, President, and Charles F. Kettering, Vice President of the General Motors Corporation, compare notes as they arrived to appear before the Monopoly Committee today. Both testified that it would be 'bad for the industry generally' if the present patent system were abolished

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Instruction on Curtis motors for apprentice seamen as aviation mechanics, 10/15/19

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Labor Secretary and Michigan Governor get together with GMC officials in efforts to settle auto strike. Washington D.C. Shortly following their meeting with labor leaders this afternoon, Secretary of Labor Perkins and the Governor of Michigan Frank Murphy went into a conference with executives of General Motors in efforts to settle the strike of automobile workers. In the photograph, left to right (seated) Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; President General Motors; Secretary Perkins; Governor Frank Murphy; and William S. Knusdes. Back Row: John Thomas Smith; (left) Chairman Finance Committee, General Motors

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UAWU President appears before Dies committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. After declaring he was only appearing because he was subpoenaed, Homer Martin, President of the United Automobile Works Union, told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that communists are active in both the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L., and that they are 'relatively' as active in the AFL as in any other organization. He charged that Judge Paul V. Gadola of Flint, Mich., who issued an injunction requiring auto union members to vacate General Motors plants during the 1937 sit-down strikes, is a fascist

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At monopoly hearing. Washington, D.C., May 18, 1939. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., at hearing of the Monopoly Investigating Committee, with Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-chairman of the committee. Sloan told the committee that General Motors had almost no outside financing in the last 18 years, a period in which it made $2,300,000,000

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Machine shop for repairs & upkeep of Liberty motors, 10/15/19

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Pinkerton ace quizzed by Senate Investigators. Washington, D.C. After hearing testimony that the Pinkerton Detective Agency sought to sell Its service to the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee to investigate other labor espionage agencies, Samuel X. Brady, Chief of the Cincinnati office of the Pinkerton's, was questioned about the part he played in the negotiations. E.C. Davidson, Secretary of the International Association of Machinists and also Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, charged that Brady had contacted him last summer with the request that the Mayor act as go between. Brady, in denying the charge, financed by General Motors for the purpose of making inquireies about the CIO

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Do not abolish present system, GMC head tells monopoly committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S. Knudsen, President of the General Motors Corp., today told the Monopoly Committee that to abolish the patent system would be 'bad for industry generally.' He added, 'it wouldn't mean much to General Motors but hurt the inventors'

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