Word: finks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intended as it was to be a primer on the profession, Senator La Follette appended to the report a glossary of such technical terms as "fink" (strikebreaker), "noble" (commander of a strikebreaking squad), "missionary" (spreader of anti-union propaganda, especially among workers' wives), "hooker" (spies who tempt workers to become spies). But the report's dynamite was a list of some 2,500 U. S. companies found as clients of detective agencies. "The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry...
Last week the clever sales manager of Fink-Roselieve Co., a Manhattan concern which sells dentists solutions for developing their little X-ray films, was summarily out of a job. Reason: an intentionally humorous illustrated advertisement which dentists did not think a bit funny when they saw it in last month's Dental Survey and Oral Hygiene. The illustration: a middle-aged dentist holding his pretty office assistant on his lap. The caption: "Look what you can do with the time you save with F-R solutions...
...cause for alarm. Sonny, with his Old Westbury team built around the other current U. S. 10-goaler, Stewart Iglehart, came through the summer with just as good a record. By the end of August Cousin Jock was sufficiently concerned to him Gene Tunney's oldtime trainer, Lou Fink, to give his teammates some pre-championship conditioning. When the Open tournament got underway, Old Westbury rode through its opposition, toppled Winston Guest's hard-hitting Templeton team in the semifinals. Undaunted, Greentree in the other semi-final disposed of Argentina's San José team, who have...
Screaming that these "fink books" lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by shippers, seamen on both coasts protested against carrying them, even tied up ships by refusing to get them (TIME, Jan. 25). Month ago a Federal judge in Manhattan granted a preliminary injunction against the enforced use of discharge books. Last week he refused to renew the injunction. The disappointed seamen had small consolation in the Bland Bill, passed by the House last week as a compromise measure, giving sailors a choice of "fink books" or scarcely less revelatory "certificates of identification." Provided, however, was a fine...
...serial number. Each seaman must get one from the Department of Commerce, which keeps a duplicate. In the book is space for the seaman's photograph, signature and fingerprints. There are spaces for official records of 84 voyages. Duplicate information must be sent to Washington. Seamen call them "fink books," claim that they lend themselves perfectly to blacklisting by the shipowners. If a seaman is an agitator or striker, all the line has to do is record the number of his book, then refuse ever to hire him again...