Word: cio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge of communism brought against the CIO should be dismissed by reasonable people in view of the recklessness with which that word is used," asserted Roger N. Baldwin '05, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, speaking yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall...
...final two talks will be by Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor of Economics, an December 3, who will speak on "The CIO Digs In," and by John D. Black, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, on December 10, who has announced his topic as "Should the Government Control Agriculture...
Although the resignation has not yet been officially approved, Walsh's move is final, and approval of it is expected shortly. Last summer Walsh was in Maine, where he spent a large part of his time working on his book on the CIO...
...first battle of the River Raisin was fought Jan. 22, 1813, not more than three blocks from where tear gas routed the CIO picket line June 10, 1937. It was an engagement between 800 Kentucky militiamen sent by General William Henry Harrison for the relief of General Hull at Detroit and about 1,500 British and Indians. The Americans arrived at the River Raisin Jan. 18 and dispersed a small British force. Three days later the British returned, found the Americans asleep, with no sentries posted, and fell upon them, killing some 150 and taking the rest prisoners. "Remember...
Impressed by this large-scale demonstration of his power was Secretary-General Vicente Lombardo Toledano of the year-old CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), a hot-eyed little industrial unionist who likes to be compared with John L. Lewis. CTM's Toledano was one big step ahead of CIO's Lewis in that the employers had voluntarily formed a syndicate to bargain collectively under Mexico's 1931 Labor Law. Negotiations were stalled when the employers stuck flatly at the Oil Workers' demands: a 40-hour week instead of 44, a boost in minimum wages from roughly...