Word: coding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford strike involved wages and hours of some 3,000 unorganized workers in Henry Ford's Chester, Pa. export assembly plant. Though Mr. Ford has not yet signed the automobile code (which binds him just the same) he pays his men a minimum wage (50? per hour) which is 7? higher than the trade agreement requires. But because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production, Mr. Ford did not have enough work to run his Chester plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck...
...Workers by the "captive" soft coal mines of Pennsylvania. These mines are owned and their entire output is used by the great non-union iron and steel companies. Last fortnight U. M. W. won complete recognition from most commercial mine operators in a blanket wage contract under the coal code. Because that contract did not include the "captive" mines of U. S. Steel Corp., Bethlehem Steel and others, some 75,000 Pennsylvania diggers under Insurgent Martin Ryan refused to work in any sort of mine...
Last week the steelmasters, as a voluntary peace move, agreed to run their mines in concert with the coal code, giving their men the same wages and hours as prevail in commercial mines. This agreement was promptly approved by President Roosevelt in the hope of placating the strikers. But they stayed out, insisting that the steelmen must give them full recognition. When virtual recognition seemed attained last week, U. M. W. leaders ordered the 75,000 strikers back to work...
...NRAdministrator McGrady who won a strike truce by promising the miners a "square deal'' from the White House. Out of that strike was born the National Labor Board under New York's Senator Wagner. Last month the Pennsylvania miners broke the truce to force the coal code through Washington. They kept it broken to force the "captives" in line...
...crack down" on employers who violate codes but is powerless to deal with employes who violate its spirit. In not a single code, except that for coal, has Labor surrendered its right to strike. Its argument is that strikes are often necessary to bring NRA disputes to a head for mediation. Uppermost in many a mind last week as the American Federation of Labor opened its annual convention in Washington (see p. 16) was the stand it would take on the tide of strikes sweeping the land. William Green, president, cautioned all workers as follows: "The right to strike...