Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...objective of the campaign is the 'closed shop' which prohibits the employment of anyone not a union member. The steel industry will oppose any attempt to compel its employes to join a union or to pay tribute for the right to work...
...Next week will be held a great mass meeting near Homestead, at which the graves of the workers killed in the 1892 battle will be wreathed and Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, International Secretary-Treasurer of the U.M.W., will orate. Pleased as punch with the way the campaign was going Philip Murray barked confidently: "No obstacle which might be thrown in the way of this committee will deter...
...This [steel drive] is to be a campaign that has no terminal facilities, that has no deadline. It is a fight that is going to go on until the workers in the steel industry have the right to organize in unions of their own choice and decide conditions of their own working life in the same manner as workers in other industries...
Nurses want to work eight-hour shifts instead of tradition's twelve hours but have not dared to push their campaign too hard on account of Depression. They hope to have wages standardized, according to the kind of nursing and the community, at $4 to $7 for an eight-hour day; $5 to $8 for ten hours; $6 to $9 for twelve hours...
Though discretion prevented an active drive against such small schools, a campaign for improving the quality and range of teaching had progressed so well that Dean Taylor last week could sternly declare that harder studies for prospective nurses are now in order...