Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frankensteen started to obey, was struck from behind, turned around to fight. Four or five men closed in on him. He was knocked down and his coat pulled over his head. He got to his feet and grabbed one of his attackers by the ear. Others slugged him fore & aft. Cameramen snapped these early stages of the battle, then fled before their plates were seized...
...affair was deliberately provoked by union officials. . . . They simply wanted to trump up a charge of Ford brutality. ... I know definitely no Ford service man or plant police were involved in any way in the fight. . . . The union men were beaten by regular Ford employes who were on their way to work. The union men called them 'scabs and cursed and taunted them. A Negro who works in the foundry was goaded and cursed so viciously by one organizer that he turned and struck him. That was the first blow struck...
...Under President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen, A. F. of L. set up a new Maritime Transportation Department to fight the insurgent new National Maritime Union allied with C. I. O. Meantime the Labor Relations Board held hearings on a petition by Leader James Curran of the N. M. U. for an election on the I. M. M., Luckenbach and Black Diamond lines to determine whether he or Joe Ryan should rule the waves. First action took place in New York Harbor. Curran's seamen sat down on the Munson Liner Munargo until three...
...Germany are plunging into the war will be countered by additional help to Madrid from Russia, and the twenty killed on the Deutschland and the hundred killed in Almeria are just an "aperitif" before a long meal. That Germany and Italy will go out of their way to fight in Spain is the lesson of the latest crisis, and the moral therefrom is that positive pressure of an economic or political nature must be applied to these countries before they wholly upset the tight-rope team of Europe swaying on the wire called Peace...
...application of Humble Oil & Refining Co. for permission from the War Department to drill a well in 18 ft. of water in the Gulf of Mexico about a mile off the mainland of Jefferson County. In the Texas Legislature sportsmen and conservationists joined with fishing interests to fight for State action against the drilling, pass laws to keep Texas oil fields out of the water. This was the first time any oil company had proposed to drill in the Gulf proper and tarpon fishermen envisioned miles of future wells ruining their fun. Last week however, it looked as though Humble...