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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers employed at the yard had most embarrassingly struck that morning, refusing either to work or go home before quitting time. They claimed their employers had failed to live up to the wage and working conditions sections of their contract. Back to New London went Miss Marsh...
...Eaton, in whose property Cinema Producer Irving Thalberg was buried last week and who has a contract to put Mary Pickford away when the time comes, advertises his cemetery with neon signs. expensive advertising brochures. Last week one of his colleagues. Judge William Heston of Detroit, boasted that, with no expensive advertising expenditures, his Michigan Memorial Park ''has received more publicity week after week than any other Detroit institution with the exception of the Detroit Tigers." Since Judge Heston built a loud organ in his cemetery, ''anyone driving within a radius of four or five miles...
...undergraduates are warned that no man is allowed to solicit unless he displays the official University badge granted by the Business Office. All solicitors are members of the University. A contract from an unofficial solicitor gives the signer absolutely no certainty of fair treatment...
...lettuce seasons of the year, growers around Wratsonville and Salinas ship as high as 300 carloads of lettuce per day, raise about 25% of the annual U. S. crop. Two years ago a violent strike tied up the Salinas-Watsonville fields. Settlement came with the signing of a contract between the Fruit & Vegetable Workers' Union and the Growers-Shippers' Association. Fortnight ago the contract came up for renewal. Agreement stalled when the growers objected to a clause giving unionists "preferential hiring," called it the entering wedge of the closed shop, traditionally detested in California...
...West Coast which threatened to tighten rather than ease as Sept. 30 drew near. On that date expires the agreement reached after the 1934 general strike by the waterfront labor unions, notably Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members on the proposal, frankly adding that they would try to instigate another...