Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week stole a march on the New Deal by proposing three amendments: 1) to authorize employers as well as unions to demand labor elections; 2) to require that collective bargaining agreements be set down in writing and, in case a union fails to live up to a contract, to deprive it of its right of employe representation; 3) to establish a fair practice code for Labor just as there is now such a code for employers. Chief importance of these proposals was as a goad to the New Deal majority, but important for itself was another march stolen last...
...elections-was turned down flat by the steelmasters, though Mediator Charles Phelps Taft II was sure that the union would have accepted it or some variant of that proposal. The steel companies now maintained that the question was not. and never had been, simply one of signing a C.I.O. contract. Though nearly everyone in the U. S. from President Roosevelt down was under that impression, the steelmasters informed the mediators...
Would Mr. Girdler sign a contract if an election were held and the majority of his employes voted C.I.O.? "We still wouldn't sign a contract...
Would he sign if the Supreme Court upheld the ruling? "Whenever the law says I have to sign a contract and the law is properly upheld, then I'll have to sign a contract. . . . I am trying to tell the distinguished committee I won't sign a contract with an irresponsible, racketeering, violent, communistic organization like the C.I.O. and until the law requires me to do so, I am not going...
...from the back of the house. Somebody in a box helped out with an accordion and for an hour and a half people felt something of that sympathetic union with the actors that directors dream about. When the opera ended, three Broadway producers rushed backstage to angle for a contract. None was signed, but a hastily assembled committee raised $2,205, enough to assure the opera a two-week...