Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to the demand for a closed shop, the University offered to hire kitchen and dining-hall workers exclusively from the A. F. of L. provided such workers could be obtained within 48 hours. Otherwise outsiders would be employed and retained on condition they joined the union in three weeks...
...Because of present uncertainly as to national legislation affecting pensions generally," the University would make no move towards abolition of the compulsory pension plan, the workers' third demand...
...Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau would like by this time to see the end of the Government's perennial deficit and mounting debt. Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where they have to take your securities to protect the ones they have already...
...trustee he has irrevocable control over all Hearst enterprises-provided he can keep the Consolidated preferred stockholders happy-until 1947, when Hearst will be 84. Nobody, not even Hearst, knows if Hearst will live that long, and so the trusteeship is a race against death, when the Government may demand up to 20% in inheritance taxes and creditors can no longer be stalled. Even more, it is a race against dwindling confidence. Judge Shearn has abandoned a large part of the Hearst empire, and well he knows how ephemeral is the faith that holds the rest of it together...
Labor leaders on the other hand insisted that the 300 A.F. of L. employee of the University has spoken and that "they won't yield an inch." They claimed their demand for a closed shop was justified, pointing out that the 10 percent who have not joined the union are enjoying the benefits of the Federation's bargaining and yet are refusing to contribute their share...