Word: gormanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...textile industry's 1,250,000 workers remember peppery little Francis Joseph Gorman as the leader of the great U. S. textile strikes of 1934. Last week Mr. Gorman loudly reminded them that he is also the president of a well-nigh forgotten union: United Textile Workers of America...
...Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and took over the U. T. W. administration, its almost empty treasury, its debts and its 80,000 members, but left the union in theoretical existence as a committee affiliate. Along with other U. T. W. officers who bolted A. F. of L., Francis Gorman signed the contract which supposedly validated all this, and himself joined the new committee's advisory council...
...grew to a claimed 400,000 members and signed up 850 textile plants, brusque and able Sidney Hillman gained in stature. He did not trouble to conceal Francis Gorman's descent into obscurity. Labor gossips soon reported that Mr. Gorman was fretting in his Washington corner. Last summer, he confirmed the gossip by suddenly quitting the council...
Trouble followed for T. W. O. C. in Mr. Gorman's home town of Providence, R. I. Eleven rebellious locals were expelled by T. W. O. C., which sued to take over their funds. To Sidney Hillman's surprise and discomfort, Superior Court Judge Charles A. Walsh held last month that the contract whereby U. T. W. officers signed away their union was invalid, because the members did not have a chance to vote...
...Thursday case will be argued before Chief Justice Fred T. Field, of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts; Justice William W, Moss, of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; and Judge Robert N. Gorman, of the Supreme Court of Ohio...