Word: hire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part, Tin Baron Antenor Patiño was far from displeased. His plan was working out. When the company rehired its miners, it would hire only non-union labor, no "agitators." That would break the National Federation of Tin Miners...
...provide this union coverage (and to wean his workers from the union press), Meyers had revamped the Blast's staff. As editor-in-chief he hired aggressive, 36-year-old Orville Weller, a Navy veteran, allowed Weller to hire a group of associate editors, mostly C.I.O. members. The Blast plans to keep on covering union affairs fully, with no editorial comment...
...bone & sinew of the I.T.U. So the 95-year-old labor union would simply sign no more contracts. Its 1,001 locals would post unsigned "conditions of employment," and would work as long as the conditions prevailed. Any publisher who rashly tried to alter the conditions-or to hire non-union printers-would have a strike on his hands...
...There are too many people . . . who think that the Kingdom of God is just something you hire a preacher to worry about so the congregation can relax." In fact, said 27-year-old Rev. Harmon H. Bro of the Christian Church of Lanark, Ill., his church's 100 members were so relaxed that only about 30 attended services regularly, and church revenue was steadily declining. "This calls for a drastic step," he added. "The only thing I can think of is to set an example...
...highly specialized mine fields there was little chance that the operators could exert their legal right to hire new men to mine the coal, even if they dared. Other labor leaders, who knew that John Lewis was not loony, watched carefully...