Word: ilion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week there slipped completely out of Leftist Spain and over into France three ragged, mud-bespattered Abies & Georgies whose shoes were coming to pieces and who appeared half-starved. The most communicative of these was John Gordon Honeycombe, 37, of Los Angeles, a former U. S. seaman born at Ilion, N. Y. "I remember the last thing my wife said to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid in Los Angeles," mused Mr. Honeycombe. "She said: 'You'll regret the day you left for Spain.' She was right! The whole Republican line -those...
Balloting in Syracuse was blocked by the indignant union before it began. Promptly the plant manager posted notice of a two-week shutdown, fired 17 union leaders "for acting like Communists," announced that the portable division would be moved, not to Elmira but to Ilion, leaving 800 Syracusans jobless. This looked remarkably like a lockout...
...Rand, returned to try another ballot. On the strength of some 400 votes the company declared the plant open a week after the closing. Less than a half-dozen workers got through a double file of 900 pickets. Meanwhile machinery was being shipped out of Syracuse to Elmira and Ilion...
Leaving a $15 bonus offer for the Tonawanda strikers to think about Mr. Rand went to Ilion, where a committee of citizens from both Ilion and neighboring cities were under the distinct impression that the company had threatened to close their plant, too. Mr. Rand soon had the citizens' committee fighting pickets, and some 1,300 in Ilion went back to work. However, as soon as Ilion went back Tonawanda followed suit...
...Rand did not go to Syracuse but Syracuse went to him in Ilion in the form of a businessmen's committee. The committee understood that if workers returned to work, they could have what jobs were left in the Syracuse plant, held out hopes of a big increase in the Syracuse payroll by autumn. Great was the Syracusans' surprise, therefore, when Remington-Rand issued a statement which explained a great deal about the strike...