Word: bargainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Full details would fill a good-sized volume, but when it has been conceded that the worker is at a disadvantage and not always able to strike a fair bargain, hence "collective bargaining," why has no legislation been enacted which will protect persons seeking domestic employment who invariably are in dire circumstances and with no one to depend upon, when there are so many employers willing to take advantage of the situation...
...declarations, the all-important issue of unionization behind the coal strike and many a lesser strike in other lines throughout the land had only been postponed. That issue grows directly out of the National Recovery Act where, written into law, is Labor's right to organize and bargain collectively. How it is to exercise this privilege is one of the toughest questions put up to General Johnson. The great "open shop" manufacturers of steel, rubber and automobiles have their answer: company unions. The American Federation of Labor has its answer: national unions. Therein still lies the biggest germ...
...warm spell of the President's personal charm, patient, loyal Secretary Hull forgot his injured pride, swore new allegiance to the Administration. Carefully he explained the whys & wherefores of the Conference collapse. Britain had been a disappointment. The foreign Press behaved outrageously. Europe wanted the best of every bargain. The President was most sympathetic, expressed complete confidence in his foreign minister, sent him away with a smile to prepare for another conference, that of the Pan-American Union in Montevideo in September...
...Camden and Standard Steel Car. He backed two young men and took a 60% interest in McClintic-Marshall Construction Co. Meantime U. S. Steel had been formed. When Union Steel announced plans for building a rail mill and a new railroad to Pittsburgh, U. S. Steel came around to bargain, bought Union Steel at a huge profit to Mellon and Frick. While all this was going on, one morning in 1901 a Jugoslav mining engineer punched a hole in a salt dome on the Texas plains and a huge fountain of oil such as man had never seen before spouted...
...automobile industry needed to be bullyragged into a code because its members had been tied up in knots for weeks on the labor question. As with Steel, their traditional "open shop" policy was threatened by the mandate for collective bargaining in the National Recovery Act. In Detroit General Johnson told them that they were free to bargain individually with their men but they could not legally refuse to bargain with any representatives their men chose to elect, even if their representatives happened to be A. F. of L. agents. Nor could they specifically close their plants to union workers...