Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolled across San Francisco's labor scene, it also aroused other employers. The Retailers' Council, which had been negotiating a new contract with A. F. of L.'s Retail Department Store Employes Union to cover 35 stores, flatly balked at the union's three big demands: 35-hour week, store-wide (instead of departmental) seniority for promotions, closed shop. The union withdrew the first demand altogether, said it would compromise on a preferential shop. The Council stood firm and out marched 5,000 (out of 8,000) store employes, mostly girls, to start an ominous carnival...
...high-spots of the summer session was the "opinion sheet" passed out to students to enable official to out to students to enable officials to give their like and dislikes of their life. Recommendations varied from a demand for more cream for after-dinner coffee to a plea that the course credit system be abandoned altogether and that a more informal adult cultural institute be developed...
...readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with more than 7,000,000 readers. She is in constant demand as a radio and platform speaker...
...down with grim-faced representatives of 137 Class I railroads and 19 railroad unions. The three were the National Mediation Board, and their problem, in their own words, was the "biggest" the board has ever faced: to arbitrate the three-month-old deadlock between railroad managements' demand for and railroad workers' refusal of a 15% wage...
...business leaders as a group tot up these mixed figures was last week ascertained by Chairman George A. Sloan of the Consumers' Goods Industries Committee, who compiled a survey of opinion. He announced: "Reports . . . point to some definite improvements in demand and production and more especially in morale. . . . By and large these reports present evidence of hope and expectation rather than any material realization...