Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition, the motor makers got a specific promise in answer to their complaint that the A. F. of L. had coerced their workers to join its union: "The Government makes it clear that it favors no particular union. . . . The Government's only duty is to secure absolute and uninfluenced freedom of choice without coercion, restraint or intimidation from any source...
...convention in Washington last fortnight both President Roosevelt and General Johnson had much to say about the "little fellow" who found himself and his business painfully pinched by code provisions. On General Johnson's desk last week lay a complaint from a business man in Columbus, Ga. which was typical of the little fellow's troubles. Tom (not Thomas) Huston was asking to be relieved from the operation of the chewing gum code. Tom Huston has not always been a gummaker. He used to be in the peanut business. Last year his gum salesmen spent so much time...
That the public welcomed his challenge was evident from the fact that the programs of his five forums for complaint (1) employment, 2) prices, 3) trade practices, 4) code administration, 5) oppression of small business) were long in advance completely filled. Only exception to this eagerness to complain was in Forum No. 3 (trade practices). The United States Patriotic Society Inc. ran public notices in the Press saying that it would be glad to represent complainers at the meeting, free of charge. Meantime all code hearings were canceled by NRA for the duration of the battle...
Admitting that she had no complaint against the Harvard Freshmen, Catherine Warner, ex-Union waitress, assailed the harsh disciplinary conditions in the Freshman dining hall in a statement to the CRIMSON last night. The bombastic reports which have been appearing in the Daily Record were over-emphasized, she asserted, but maintained that they were based on facts, although she had not believed that they would be taken so seriously...
...denied that she had any real grievances against the Freshmen. She said, "All that stuff about the Harvard boys was written in fun. They aren't any different from any other people. There were a lot that were nice, and some that weren't. I haven't got any complaint with the boys...