Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protests flowed in to General Johnson's desk, which he keeps bare as a ballroom floor at all times. The Alabama crowd wailed that NRA's illegal socialization of the industry would ruin them. The Appalachian operators stormed violently against unionization, restrictions on company stores and houses, prohibition of child labor. Others criticized the pay differentials between various districts. They pointed out, for example, that nothing but the Ohio River separated Western Kentucky's $3.84 per day scale and Illinois' $5. Having listened to such talk for six weeks, General Johnson was unmoved. With...
...York (except Long Island), Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington, Oregon, southern Idaho, northern New Mexico. Nov. 1 to Dec. 31-Long Island, N. Y., Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, California, northern Texas. Nov. 16 to Jan. 15-New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, southern Arizona, southern Texas, southern New Mexico. Nov. 20 to Jan. 15-Florida...
...Sheriff Shamblin turned them over to the lynchers who disappeared into the night. Next day the bodies of two of the Negroes were found underneath a tree near Woodstock, handcuffed together, riddled with bullets. Day later, the third Negro was found in hiding, wounded. Lynching score for the year: Alabama, 2; other States...
...York lawyers had been sent to help defend the Negroes. They were ruled out of court fortnight ago on the grounds that the prisoners had not retained them. So high ran mob feeling against the lawyers that it took a troop of guardsmen to get them out of Alabama alive. The International Labor Defense last week made public a telegram sent to Governor Miller, holding Judge Henry B. Foster and Sheriff Shamblin directly responsible for the lynching, said they could prove that the mob had been incited by officials...
...Westinghouse installation geared to lamps giving an intensity of 30 footcandles* (four or five times the normal classroom light), has helped the handicapped students lift their work well above the standard of children in a neighboring, plain-style classroom. Similar results were obtained after an installation by Alabama Power Co. in Tuscumbia, Ala Ideal for the future and cheaper, urged Engineer Atwater, would be schoolhouses with no windows at all, with air-conditioning and light-conditioning units throughout...