Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year Bridges was ready to demand a contract for the sugar workers, who had always been at or near the bottom of the economic pile. Imported by the thousands as indentured laborers from China, Japan, Portugal, Puerto Rico and the Philippines, they had once lived in virtual peonage...
...I.L.W.U. got the sugar workers a contract providing minim urns of 41?to 43½?an hour (up from 26½?), plus perquisites such as company housing and medical care. This year the I.L.W.U., strong and cÕnifident, asked for much more sweetening: 1) a 65? minimum; 2) joint company-union administration of perquisites; 3) a 40-hour week; 4) the union shop. That was too much for the planters; for weeks negotiations have been stalemated...
...Some said that crafty old John L. Lewis wanted to get a wage oar in for his United Mine Workers before the rival C.I.O. began its new race for raises. Still others said that, after five months of relative personal anonymity (while his U.M.W. grubbed along on its Government contract), egomaniacal...
...once, every guess seemed to be close. Despite the generous terms of the contract handed him by Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug last May, Lewis found sudden fault with it last week. The whole agreement, he growled, would have to be reopened on or before Nov. i. And if not re-opened by then, said John L., the U.M.W. would consider itself without a contract. Everybody knew that that meant a strike; to the miners, the slogan "No contract, no work" is as automatic as their breathing...
...Lewis timing could not have been more fiendish. Cap Krug, electioneering on the West Coast, hurriedly denied Lewis' charge that Government "misinterpretations" of the contract had cost the miners "millions." Then he bluntly told the great stentor that the meeting would have to wait until after election...