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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chesterfield's Liggett & Myers has had a contract with A. F. of L.'s International Tobacco Workers since 1937. Last week, after Chesterfield's union workers had struck for better terms than they had in an expired agreement, Liggett & Myers re-signed for its plants at Durham, N. C., Richmond and San Francisco. Vital clause in the amended contract: "In the interest of promoting a more harmonious relationship, the company approves of its employes becoming members of the union, and therefore it is further desired by the company that those employes not now members . . . shall become members...
...literally that it has accumulated a fine roster of enemies. By his own inclination and by instruction from the President, Dr. Leiserson proposes to continue literal enforcement of collective bargaining, minus the harsh words now characteristic of NLRB. If his placating presence fails to smooth down A. F. of L., Business and hostile Congressmen, the Administration may even enlarge NLRB, or as a last resort sacrifice Chairman Warren Madden and co-Member Edwin Smith in order to save the Wagner Act from ruinous amendments...
...Construction, General Labor & MaterialHandlers Union (A. F. of L.) had a closed-shop contract for work onpart of Pennsylvania's new, $60,000,000 Dream Highway (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). This meant that farmers in Somerset County, who do spare-time work on the roads for extra cash, had to join the union and pay $15 initiation fees in order to get jobs. Six-foot, two-inch Farmer Victor Glessner organized his fellows, smashed the union's county headquarters, ran two organizers away, had another indicted for waving a pistol at protesting ruralites. Having effectively opened the closed shop...
...even the peace-loving Socialists raised any great fuss. And from France, a onetime Premier, Socialist Léon Blum, even spoke sharply against Labor's opposition to such mild conscription. Said he of British Labor's distaste for conscription: "I am myself staggered and I think that French opinion generally is staggered...
First to feel the decrees were three frankly Nazi papers in Alsace, which immediately ceased publication. Paris news-organs which have been printing favorable German "news" lately are Le Matin, Le Journal, La Liberte, Le Jour, Gringoire. Principal anti-Semitic newspapers affected are Je Suis Partout and L'Action Fran-faise...