Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of the Committee for Industrial Organization," stated that body, "to conduct this campaign in a perfectly legal manner. . . . The Committee desires to avoid industrial strife and disturbance or violence of any character...
...rival labor organization. Far from knuckling under, Committee for Industrial Organization leaders welcomed into their fellowship the stripling United Rubber Workers and United Auto Workers unions, announced that organizational drives in the rubber, automobile and textile indus tries would be pushed simultaneously with the steel campaign. As individuals they proclaimed their refusal to answer the A. F. of L. summons...
...body they contemptuously dismissed the demand by declaring it "inconceivable that the Executive Council would commit any act to split the labor forces of America in the midst of the campaign in the iron and steel indus try and in the face of the arrogant ultimatum issued to the entire labor movement by the American Iron and Steel Institute." R, L P. At week's end the steel campaigners repaired for inspiration to the scene of the first great battle between U. S. steelmasters and U. S. steelmakers...
Franklin Roosevelt got his political start fighting New York City's Tammany Hall, was bitterly opposed by it before and during the Democratic Convention of 1932. As the 1936 campaign approached, how- ever, and the New Deal's need of all the support it could get in New York State became apparent, a notable change came over the President. Last week he addressed to Tammany's Independence Day pow-wow a letter in which he declared: "In this day, as in the days of its founding, the Society of Tammany is on the side of popular rights...
Vacationing on his rented ranch in Colorado's Roosevelt National Forest, the Republican nominee had to attend to some campaign business in which his daughter could take no part. A stream of big & little Republican wigs, including Oregon's Representative William Ekwall, Wyoming's Senator Robert Carey and National Finance Committee Chairman William B. Bell of Manhattan, stopped in to shake his hand, talk shop, tell him how bright his prospects looked...