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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strike? Why not? For 30? an hour? Don't be silly, said the A.F. of L. Air Line Pilots' Association-we want a raise of $6,500 a year...
...L. was on the road to change. Where the road would end, its president and the first twelve vice presidents could hardly say. But the 13th vice president doubtless had some ideas...
Snorted Baltimore's bellicose H. L. Mencken (The American Language): "I think they ought to charge us for it, but all to the Bostonians. They are the only ones who speak the English language in America. The rest of us speak American...
...three tense days, Lewis Clark insisted that his workers would not go back. Here was a U.S. labor leader openly defying Government seizure; nobody quite knew what to do about rambunctious Mr. Clark. Then he relented. He watched the rival A.F. of L. union's President Earl Jimerson give in happily to the back-to-work order. He extracted the promise of help toward wage boosts from Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson and conferred with C.I.O. President Phil Murray (who apparently extracted a few promises...
Sired by Failure. Poor, proud, tough and relatively small, the packinghouse union was born in 1937 of the repeated failures of the A.F. of L. and independent unions to wring concessions from the "Big Four" packers (Swift, Armour, Cudahy & Wilson). At the core of its membership are Negro/Irish, Slav and Mexican knockers, hog-splitters, blood-catchers and miscellaneous workers who do the hard, dangerous, foul-smelling labor in the huge packing plants...