Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join hated company unions were being evicted from company-owned houses. The Board angrily pointed to that section of the act which stipulates: "Employes shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint or coercion of employers of labor." When open hearings begin on the codes which have been largely drafted from the employers' viewpoint, the old Capital v. Labor fight is destined to come tramping out into the open to make General Johnson's days miserable...
...prosecution of Sam Kaplan, deposed boss of Manhattan's Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators' Union, for coercion (expelling carpers who wanted an accounting of union funds from which Kaplan drew a $21,800 salary and "gifts") (TIME, Dec. 12); conviction; in Manhattan...
...built the most impressive house in the colony, Marble Hall. It cost $8,000,000. She warmed Marble Hall with the most sensational engagement announcement of the decade, that of her daughter Consuelo to the Duke of Marlborough. (When Consuelo wanted an annulment in 1927, her mother frankly admitted coercion.) Next Alva Vanderbilt erected another towering social milestone by divorcing her husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social...
After Kaplan's removal from office the suit was temporarily suspended for the judge to arbitrate the amount of settlement. Next week Kaplan and 22 henchmen go on trial in Manhattan on indictments charging coercion and using physical violence against critics of Local...
...Democratic candidate: "President Hoover's campaign has yielded many examples of unscrupulous appeals for votes.... The President misrepresented me and misquoted himself... he did what he said ought not to be done.... He has enlisted the services of the captains of industry in spreading a campaign of coercion against workers in attempting to persuade them to vote the Republican ticket... They have tried to govern by guess and gamble... The President has lost his dignity and has indulged in personalities...