Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the "hot" car rolled across San Francisco's labor scene, it also aroused other employers. The Retailers' Council, which had been negotiating a new contract with A. F. of L.'s Retail Department Store Employes Union to cover 35 stores, flatly balked at the union's three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls...
...project will cost in toto upwards of $170,000,000. Materials for the dam were not included in the builders' contract, will be bought separately by the Government. The Southern Pacific's railroad tracks and Western Union's wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...
...Record editorial employes. The financial pages of both papers were dropped. And Dave Stern, whose papers woo the workingman, cast about for ways to institute a pay cut on the Post, without colliding with A.F. of L. unions in its mechanical departments, or the American Newspaper Guild, whose contract with the Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions to let their men treat the matter as individuals rather than as unionists, Publisher Stern got a "10% "kickback" out of 97% of the Post's mechanical employes.* They agreed to lend...
...advertising intensive MBS regional coverage, has as well a collection of sponsored shows which uses its full network. Their business has grown from a gross of $1,364,876 for 1935 to $2,269,078 for 1937. The first eight months of 1938 brought them $1,673,913 and contracts already signed for the last four months add up to some $909,200 more. With sales for the year still going strong, MBS already has a 1938 gross under contract which betters its 1937 peak by some 13.6%, is 22.7% ahead of last year on its first eight months...
Last week when a representative of Hennies Brothers, one of carnival's Big Five, went to Chicago prepared to sign a closed shop contract with A.F.A., he was turned down, told that Hennies Brothers could not sign until an A.F.A. representative passed on its morals...