Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boasting that 80 percent of University cooks and waiters are now regular members of A. F. of L. locals 186 and 112, labor leaders admit, however, that they have been unable to reach an agreement with College authorities on either a closed or a preferential shop...
...meantime the waitresses have forged ahead in their own campaign and will vote on the reports of their representative, Joseph Stefani at a meeting Wednesday. Still confident that a signed agreement would climax labor activity in the dining halls, leaders said that would make "another try" to gain recognition before releasing statements...
...union wants the University to sign an agreement whereby all non-union employees hired by the University must apply for membership in the union at least thirty days after they are placed on the payroll. Such a system is known as the "preferential shop...
Obviously this dissension could not continue long in such a tight industry as aviation. Last week President Patterson and President Smith of American had dinner together and talked things over. At the end of the evening they had come to an agreement. The likelihood was that American would stop mentioning the Low Level Route and go back to decently competitive remarks on noncombustible topics like speed, comfort and hostesses...
...conditions. Still more primary are stomach-loadings. But unemployment, though the bitterest index of bad times, is not the best, for the U. S. has never found a satisfactory way of measuring it. Last week, however, Government estimates of unemployment increases, varying widely in figures, were in complete basic agreement: unemployment is growing by leaps & bounds. Leon Henderson, onetime NRA economist, estimated in a study made for WPA that 2,000,000 workers have lost their jobs since September 1, that between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 more will do so before February 1. Acting WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams...