Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aggravating this general complaint, Goodrich recently announced that either its workers would have to take a pay cut averaging 12.3% or the company would (like its major competitors) transfer a sizable share of its production to other, lower-paid localities. Having rejected this proposal, Goodrich workers also threatened to walk out if 25 supervisory employes retained plant jobs normally held by ordinary workers. Last week both sides accepted a compromise. The union agreed to halved vacation pay. Goodrich agreed to maintain its hourly scales, to give U. R. W. a written agreement...
...Philip James McCook, that he was needed urgently that evening by the district attorney of New York County. Pleading illness in his family, Justice McCook slipped away from the State constitutional convention which he was attending, reached Manhattan at 1 a. m., sat down at home to inspect a complaint against one James J. Hines, alleged conspirator and partner in the operation of the sprawling city's $100,000,000-per-year "policy" or "numbers" racket. Justice McCook signed a warrant for Hines's arrest...
Last week, for showing this old rabble-rouser at his East Orange, N. J. cinema theatre, retired big-league Baseball Pitcher Adolph J. ("Otto") Rettig faced the possibility of three years in jail, a fine of $5,000. The complaint: violation of a State statute, passed in 1935 to curb Nazi activity, forbidding any representation that "incites, counsels, promotes, advocates or symbolizes hatred, violence or hostility against any group of persons by reason of race, color, religion or manner of worship." The complainants: representatives of some 5,000 East Orange Negroes...
...First Income, Continental, and (more than a third) from Reynolds itself. The control stocks of Continental and Reynolds, said Mr. Ballantine, had no asset values, the prices were excessive and the sellers should have known that some raid on the companies' assets was planned. Further the bill of complaint specified other interesting uses of Continental's funds: to buy all stock of Corporate Administration, Inc., substantially the only asset of which was a management contract with Administered Fund Second, Inc.: to buy stock of an aircraft corporation regarded by the trustee as of little or no value...
...length of time involved in the negotiations, their frequency and the persistence with which the employer offers opportunity for agreement. . . . We deem it necessary to re-emphasize the obligation which rests upon the board as a quasi-judicial tribunal. The very fact that . . . the board files the complaint, hears the complaint through its examiner, and then makes a decision thereon, requires it with scrupulous impartiality to evaluate the evidence presented on behalf not only of the employes but also of the employer...