Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Manhattan's Harlem, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters staged a "victory" mass meeting. The victory was a contract signed in Chicago with The Pullman Co., and the meeting was a triumphant welcome by the Harlem porters for the returning Brotherhood president, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph who brought back some $2,000,000 in pay increases. Minimum wage for train porters was hiked from $77.50 per month to $89.50. For maids from $75 to $97.50.* A basic 240-hour month was established, time-and-a-half for overtime provided after 260 hours, working rules & regulations...
President Randolph's contract was the product of a twelve-year campaign. Born in Crescent City, Fla. in 1889, the son of a Methodist preacher, he made his name as founder-editor of the crusading Negro Messenger. For his opposition to U. S. participation in the War, he was officially branded as the "most dangerous Negro in America." Once he received a threat on his life in the form of a bloody human hand, mailed from Louisiana...
...Mediation Board held an election the Brotherhood beat a reorganized company union, 6,000 to 1,400. Subsequent conferences with Pullman bogged down, requiring intervention of the Mediation Board. Last year the Brotherhood was granted its international charter, and last month, after five months at the conference table, the contract was finally signed. Diplomatic President Randolph declared last week: "The Brotherhood and The Pullman Co. are now enjoying the most cordial relations...
...resounding decision that put it in direct conflict with the Federal bench, the U. S. Labor Board last fortnight held National Electric Products Corp. in Ambridge, Pa. guilty of unfair labor practices under the Wagner Act. A Federal district court had held that a contract by which the corporation granted a closed shop to an A. F. of L. union was valid and must be obeyed. The Board flatly declared the contract was "void and of no effect" and must be ignored (TIME, Sept. 13). Last week the Board carried the controversy a step farther only to make a monkey...
...collection of French and Dutch oils, August Kochs, with typical German thrift, has always financed Victor expansion out of earnings. At present he contemplates a $1,000,000 plant with electric furnaces near Mount Pleasant, Tenn., for which the company has signed a $500,000-a-year power contract with TVA. This hefty expansion could be swung by private financing, but August Kochs has lately been pestered by stockholders who want a market valuation for their stock. Therefore last week Victor Chemical Works offered a public sale of 150,000 shares, planned to seek listing on the New York Stock...