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...unions tried to move in and he fought them. He assigned a hard-faced ex-sailor, Harry Bennett, to guard his empire. Heads were cracked. In 1932 four jobless marchers were killed outside the Rouge plant. He defied the New Deal. But in 1941, he capitulated. He signed a union-shop contract, something of which even Walter Reuther in his wildest moments had not dreamed...
Advance Payment. In Portland, Ore., George A. Johnson confessed that he was employed last year when he collected $126 unemployment compensation, persuaded the judge that he is truly jobless now, and will pay back every cent out of the unemployment benefits he gets this year...
...days at the bottom of the cycle. The result is the increasing trend toward consolidation and away from the dispersion of ownership that, theoretically, should preserve the balance of power in the business community. In the same way the worker, union and non-union, lives with the fear of jobless days ahead. In his own way he attempts to accumulate enough fat to live through the days when twenty percent of those seeking jobs are frustrated, and the economy functions at a fraction of capacity. Each side labor and management, could be satisfied in its demands, given a stable full...
...camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...
While still an insignificant Sig, Caniff imitated John Held Jr., tried editorial cartoons for the Columbus Dispatch. He was jobless in 1932 when the Associated Press Feature Service beckoned him on to New York...