Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word did the agreement say about the Union's original demand to represent all General Motors workers. Mr. Lewis was obliged fortnight ago to back down from that flat demand. By the terms of the actual agreement he gained virtually nothing that he could not have had when the strike began. But with the agreement went a letter from Mr. Knudsen to Governor Murphy, saying...
...form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman "is a history of rapine, carnage, destruction and murder waged principally against defenseless women and little children. . . ." At Atlanta, the Georgia Senate considered a similar resolution while the House argued a proposal to approve the stamp...
...anyone thinks that John L. Lewis took a licking from General Motors when he had to back down on his "sole bargaining" demand, let him look about in Harvard College. For the strength, ambition, and prestige of the C.I.O. have jumped so high in the labor world since the automotive baiting that even undergraduate sympathizers are signing up for work with the union leaders. Indeed, the labor committee of the Harvard Student Union, after surveying conditions in a number of Cambridge factories last fall, is taking up the more practical task of direct canvassing on behalf of the C.I.O...
...competition this year he is going to be facing three of his former associates, for ever since Ed Leader brought a crackerjack Husky eight to Poughkeepsie in '22 there has been a constant demand for Washington men for coaches. Leader at Yale and Rusty Callow of Penn are both old Washington men, while Harison Sanford of Cornell was his classmate out there, graduating...
Morning, afternoon & night for four days the tired men met and talked, firmly snagged on the one vital point at issue-John Lewis' demand that G. M. recognize United Automobile Workers as sole representative of all its employes. After the second day the opposing groups rarely saw each other, the Labor leaders remaining in Judge Murphy's office while the G. M. officials huddled around a telephone in the jury room. When they emerged to stretch their legs in the courtroom at the same time, Capital and Labor remained in opposite corners...