Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp. Meantime Dave Beck got the A. F. of L. to award jurisdiction over warehousemen to the teamsters, a meaningless gesture to Harry Bridges, who is now West Coast director for C. I. O. Longshoreman Bridges offered last week to settle the dispute by a National Labor Relations Board election but Teamster Beck, having only a handful of warehousemen signed up, flatly refused. "This," cried he, "is a showdown fight. We'll close every port on the Pacific Coast where warehousemen are not teamsters," "These gentlemen," rasped Longshoreman Bridges, "not only want a labor war but demand...
...began organizing porters. Having been duped in the past, many of them were suspicious. Other Negroes fought the union for a price. By 1929 the union had gained A. F. of L. Federal charters, but recognition from Pullman was not forthcoming. President Randolph carried his case to the old Board of Mediation, to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to a Federal Court. First success came in 1934 when the Railway Labor Act was amended, outlawing company unions, guaranteeing collective bargaining and-at the behest of President Randolph-bringing porters within the scope of the law. Membership jumped, and the next year...
...resounding decision that put it in direct conflict with the Federal bench, the U. S. Labor Board last fortnight held National Electric Products Corp. in Ambridge, Pa. guilty of unfair labor practices under the Wagner Act. A Federal district court had held that a contract by which the corporation granted a closed shop to an A. F. of L. union was valid and must be obeyed. The Board flatly declared the contract was "void and of no effect" and must be ignored (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week the Board carried the controversy a step farther only to make a monkey...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...
...this was raw material for a very pretty business feud, but President Shaughnessy declined to make it into a finished product. He kept his head, kept his own counsel and kept Transamerica on the board through a temporary technicality. By last week this breathing spell had cooled everybody off. The Exchange gracefully came down off its high horse, "requested" the listing; "A. P." as gracefully agreed. President Shaughnessy remained in office and San Francisco's brokers strode down Nob Hill jauntily once more...