Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued by truces. Spokesman for Labor was Longshoreman Bridges. Spokesman for the shipowners was Chairman Tom G. Plant of the Waterfront Employers' Association. Bridges demanded higher pay, a six-hour day, recognition of the unity of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. Chairman Plant demanded that control of hiring halls-the big issue in 1934-be put in neutral hands. Obscuring these prime issues were many other minor ones. When neither side would concede anything, the shipowners agreed to arbitrate. The longshoremen refused...
With Senate control beyond possible reach, Republicans knew that if they failed to capture the White House their only hope of a voice in the Federal Government would be to hack down the 3-to-1 Democratic majority in the House, elect at least a strong working minority. But as the Roosevelt avalanche swept the land, it seemed certain that when the 75th Congress meets (Jan. 5), President Roosevelt will have as unassailable a House majority as he had in the 74th, at least 315 seats...
This superficial training is supposed to be sufficient to make a man a field artillery officer after he has completed a short session at a summer camp. A smattering of hygiene, first aid, signal and fire control, hippology, communications and military history is not thorough enough training to make a man a second lieutenant. Four easy, indeed snap, courses aren't big enough to handle all the necessary material. The result is that the R.O.T.C. graduate comes out at the end of the curriculum with a host of vague, half-correct generalities, which are worse than ignorance...
...present quarrel which centers about control of the "hiring halls"--the clearing houses for all maritime employment, the unions would play a more sensible hand by keeping their strike from assuming gigantic proportions. A recurrence of the terrifying tactics of the general strike of 1934 can only breed the fear and distrust of the people as a whole and alienate the opinion of those who might logically support labor's claims. The principles for which the unions are crusading, namely fair treatment in hiring employees and decent wages and living conditions for seamen, are as sound as Gibraltar...
...solution of the problem is simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements...