Word: frick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the striking hosiery workers in Reading, Philadelphia and Lansdale, the issue in Fayette County was Unionization under the National Recovery Act. Focus of trouble was the non-union H. C. Frick Coke Co., subsidiary of the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. Even before the Recovery Act was passed in June, Frick Coke started organizing a company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke...
...Krupp von Bohlen was the ousting from the ministries of economics and industry last week of two Nazis supposed to be rabidly Socialistic, Otto Wagner and Alfred Muller. Finally all talk of a "Second Revolution" among Nazi radicals was vigorously spiked by Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick in a circular letter to the Statthalters (Hitler-appointed "Viceroys" of all the German states...
...victorious German revolution has entered upon a stage of evolution," wrote Dr. Frick. "That means normal, legal, constructive work. This task must be seriously endangered if there is a continuance of revolution or talk of a second revolution. Whosoever talks of such must understand he is thereby revolting against his leader and will be dealt with accordingly. . . . From now on power rests with the Government and with the Government alone!" Sure, perhaps prematurely, that German business is really going to be largely let alone by the Nazi State, Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen lent eager aid to a Nazi press...
Seats held by Socialists in the Reichstag, where they are the second largest party, were declared abrogated. All over Germany last week Socialist deputies were ousted from State diets. Finally membership in the Socialist Party was decreed by Dr. Frick to be "naturally incompatible with State employees' receiving salaries, wages or pensions from the public funds." Thus Socialists hereafter must either serve the State without pay or quit their jobs...
...Officially announced last week was the long-rumored purchase of famed Overholt Distillery by National Distillers (TIME, June 12). Founded two years before the War of 1812, Overholt was family-owned until the go's when control passed to Andrew William Mellon and Henry Clay Frick. In 1925 it was acquired by David Albert Schulte, cigarstore tycoon...