Word: drydock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Important repair work on 17 U.S. and British ships was delayed when 6,000 C.I.O. workers at Robins Drydock and Repair Co., New York, quit work for three days. Reason: acetylene-torch burners would not work beside four non-union burners...
...week, as the 35,000-ton battleship Massachusetts, five destroyers and three minesweepers went down the ways. Two of the destroyers, the Hambleton and Rodman, launched in a twin ceremony at Kearny, N.J., were a month behind schedule. Reason: the shipbuilders' strike that finally forced Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. to turn over its property to the Navy...
...Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., at Kearny, N. J., which the Navy seized when management refused a National Defense Mediation Board's recommendation that the company grant a shipyard workers' union a "maintenance of membership" contract (TIME, Aug. 18). The plant was temporarily operating last week under the Board's original proposal. For a Canadian answer to the defense strike problem...
...Shipbuilding case. Its justification: the other 38 shipbuilding firms on the West Coast had already agreed to the closed shop provision of an OPM master contract. In every instance, except one, industrialist members of the panel sitting on the case were in full accord. The exception: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock...
...Navy took over the strike-shut Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. at Kearny, N.J. this week-as the Army took over the strike-shut North American Aviation plant on the West Coast in June. But there were two big differences. This time it was labor that cheered while management just abdicated. And this time it looked as though the Government might have to run the plant for the duration...