Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diplomatic Illness." Inland Steel Co. had followed throughout the tactics of its bigger independent allies-Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube. Last week, like them, it was prepared to reopen its East Chicago plant without any C.I.O. agreement, a sure invitation to violence unless Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana would send troops to the East Chicago area. Governor Townsend refused to do so. He was reported sick abed at home with tonsillitis...
Successful though he was with Inland, Governor Townsend was curtly rebuffed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Frank Purnell, whose Indiana plants had been closed down. He would never, wired the steelman, make any agreement with C.I.O. directly or indirectly or ''through the Governor's office." The company announced the reopening of its Indiana Harbor mill but when the Governor sent no protective troops, the gates remained locked...
...were talking about irresponsible union officials," continued Senator Guffey. "Maybe that's one reason your employes don't want a verbal agreement with you, feeling that if you would give confidential information you aren't responsible either...
...this time the luckless Governor found himself embroiled in a front-page argument with Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. He claimed that the Secretary of Labor had urged him to "kidnap" the recalcitrant steelmasters, sit them down with John Lewis, "keep them there until they signed an agreement...
...years ago the proposal by a more radical faction to establish in one comprehensive agreement a 40-hour week for all workers was accepted ''in principle" by the Conference. This year this group was more precise in its demands. The mark it shot at was a 40-hour week for textile, chemical, printing industries throughout the world. Stanchest supporters of this scheme were the U. S. delegates, including Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor...