Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the lightning could strike, Atlanta police swooped down on the crowd. Lectured Police Chief M. A. Hornsby: "I want to tell you once and for all ... the Atlanta police department is policing this town." Four of the leaders, including disgruntled Homer L. Loomis Jr. and Whitman, were hustled off to jail, booked for disorderly conduct and "inciting a riot...
Unlike the makers of women's fashions (see Women), labor's wage designers were sticking mostly to standard models but adding material and frills here & there. Somewhat apprehensively, they watched the master of haute couture, John L. Lewis, get to work. As John L.'s underlings sat down with Interior Secretary ''Cap" Krug's underlings to haggle over a new coal contract, it was apparent that John L. had a little number of his own in mind. John L. was putting the wage style accent on a reduction of hours. He was wangling...
...industry will insist upon in contracts for cost-of-living increases. If 1947 should bring a reduction in living costs, many a labor leader would be reminded that escalators can run down as well as up; industry could insist on cutting wages in relation to reduced prices. But John L. would not be caught in any such reversal. His miners' hourly rate would not be tied to living costs...
Those who know John L.'s strategy best credited him with another smart play. The old contract had a clause providing that once wage discussions were begun, the contract could be voided after 15 days of negotiations. Thus John L. could legally strike and, in effect, eventually get a new contract...
...Veteran. Charlie became a familiar figure at political rallies, usually edged his way to the speakers' platform. To widen his connections, he wrote himself membership cards in the Knights of Columbus, Ku Klux Klan, B'nai B'rith, the Communist Party and Gerald L. K. Smith's America First. He slipped into the studio of radio station KFWB during a memorial broadcast for F.D.R., and was on the air before anyone could stop...