Word: interunion
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...forbade a number of then common union actions: interunion jurisdictional strikes, and strikes to enforce featherbedding, secondary boycotts and the closed shop. Its key section provides a system to stop strikes that could "imperil the national health and safety." If a President believes a strike poses such a threat, he can appoint a board to investigate the dispute. After he receives the board's report, the Government can seek an injunction from a federal judge forbidding the continuation or start of a strike for 80 days...
From house to house in Portland moved union teams, exhorting tenants to cancel their subscriptions to Portland's two daily newspapers, the morning Oregonian and the evening Oregon Journal. As a substitute, subscribers had the offer of a new weekly tabloid published by the Portland Interunion Newspaper Committee in a desperate attempt to win a strike that was already three months old. During those three months, the dispute had become a finish fight, eyed closely by printing-craft union men and newspaper publishers all over the U.S. At stake: the capability of newspapers, using modern equipment, to get along...
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