Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end, with a group of self-styled "loyalists" clamoring for an application of the freshly-proven Wagner Act, the company signed a new agreement with the C.I.O. group outlawing strikes for six months, providing for a vote to determine whether the United Chocolate Workers Union or the Loyal Workers Club shall represent the workers. Both claim approximately two-thirds of all employes. Left unchanged by the agreement: wages & hours; Hershey's discharge & disciplinary powers...
...Hershey's garden some two months ago was John L. Lewis' C. I. O., proffering not knowledge but independence. Within a few weeks most of Hershey's 2,600 employes were enrolled in a United Chocolate Workers' Union, and the company had signed a union agreement. But when the summer slack in the chocolate business began to set in last fortnight, the union charged that the company was violating its agreement to respect seniority, discriminating against unionists in layoffs. One day about half the workers stopped the factory with a Sit-Down. When negotiations began next...
...knit up the raveled sleeve of contention. In all respects but one the settlement of the Chrysler automobile strike was thus fitting. After 9 o'clock the evening of the eleventh day of negotiation, Governor Frank Murphy emerged from a smoke-filled office at Lansing to announce that agreement had been reached. Shortly before midnight Governor Murphy sat down at a table with John L. Lewis at one hand and Walter P. Chrysler at the other, to sign the completed articles. The one thing lacking was a proper air of exhaustion among the negotiators. Mr. Lewis looked no grimmer...
...would not grant the United Automobile Workers exclusive bargaining rights for all Chrysler workers. "The corporation agrees to bargain with the union as the collective bargaining agency for such of its employees as are members of the union." There was no qualification, as that in the General Motors agreement, that the company would not bargain with any other group for six months. Chrysler did promise not to deny the right of employes to join the union, not to discriminate against union members, not to promote or finance rival unions, not to make an agreement with any other for the purpose...
Groggy from the punching it received at Detroit from the hands of C.I.O., the General Motors of Canada waits for the knock-out punch. It is prepared to allow the employees of the Ontario plants all the benefits of the Detroit Agreement, balking only at the employees' representative, who is an organizer from the United States. What the Lewis groups must learn is how to give up tactics successful in the past for others that under new circumstances will bring peace to Oshawa...