Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Talk v. Action. Labor's crisis had been precipitated, though not caused by the action of John Lewis and his Committee in going over the heads of A. F. of L.'s Executive Council to begin an organization drive among the nation's historically unorganized steelworkers (TIME. July 13 et ante). Last week in as belligerent a statement as the soft, pious, conciliatory President of A. F. of L. ever permits himself to make, William Green declared: "A very serious, if not fatal mistake was made when [ the Committee for Industrial Organization] flouted the decision...
Last week American Iron & Steel Institute, representing 95% of the nation's steelmasters, took full-page advertisements in some 375 newspapers to repeat its declaration of war against Labor's drive to organize its historically unorganized workers (TIME, July 6). From over 100 organizers put in the field by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee went reports and charges that the war had already begun...
Workers who joined the union, said they, were being dismissed. Steel superintendents were exhorting their men to stand by their company unions. Workers were being forced to sign petitions against the organization drive. An organizer had been run out of Steubenville, Ohio. Steel plants were importing gunmen, storing up "veritable arsenals...
...Governor of this State. George H. Earle." barked he, ''is an honest and courageous man. and as chief of the armed and police forces of this State he will see that the workers are given their constitutional rights to organize. . . . This is a peace ful organization drive; no trouble is looked for. If the steel magnates throw the people into the streets, then the Pennsylvania Emergency Relief Board will find that these people are entitled to relief under the law." Straight from his steel-furnace job arrived Charles Scharbo to stumble in broken English through a Steel Workers...
...coal on company property, called themselves bootleggers. The company called them thieves. Like the others they made about $4 a day digging coal out of abandoned shafts, selling it to independent truckers. And like other bootleggers they never bothered much about timbering the shafts. If the company tried to drive them away, as it occasionally did, by dynamiting their holes, the bootleggers had a trick of staying in the holes, daring the company men to use their dynamite...