Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the start of the fracas, what Chrysler executives wanted was a satisfactory new contract with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, whose old agreement had just expired. Chrysler bargained for the lowest possible wage increase, also hoped to defeat union demands for 1) all-union hiring in the corporation...
Then the union blundered onto a tender corporate toe. A nominally separate union of C.I.O. foremen demanded recognition by Chrysler. "A new attempt to control production," cried Mr. Keller. Roland Thomas hastily announced that the demand had been withdrawn. Far from satisfied, Chrysler's Weckler demanded a guarantee (presumably...
Both sides continued to avoid calling the strike a strike. But when 57 Dodge foundry hands (mostly Negroes) went back to work at the Dodge plant, picketing strikers were angered, bricks flew (wounding two policemen and six Chrysler employes), and Mr. Thomas indignantly went through the motions of calling his...
Closed for the third week was the lovely, troublous port of San Francisco, a vital artery of Pacific Coast commerce. Longshoreman Harry Bridges and water front employers were at outs. Coastal businessmen and inland farmers suffered, drummed denunciations at durable Mr. Bridges.
For all the costly, disputatious confusion, the immediate issue between Harry Bridges and the employers was notably narrow. Normally employed on the San Francisco water front are some 1,300 clerks and checkers-key workers, because they are the ones who keep tabs on cargo, representing shippers and shipowners at...