Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans to put Mystery Control-equipped sets on the market in a month are tentative because of labor trouble at the Philadelphia plant. C.I.O. pickets were on hand for the Chicago convention...
Terms: no Guild shop in editorial and news departments; qualified Guild shop in commercial departments provided the National Labor Relations Board finds the Guild entitled to represent the employes involved; extension of the five-day, 40-hour week; fixing of wages through arbitration...
Fortnight ago, labor-loving readers of the Citizen-News were shocked when labor-loving Publisher Palmer's entire editorial staff went on strike. With a Guild contract about to be signed, Publisher Palmer had decided to retrench by firing three active Guild members: Political Editor Roger Johnson, a past president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Drama Critic Elizabeth Yeaman and Editorial Writer Mel. G. Scott Jr. To the Guild, this was discriminatory discharge in violation of the Labor Act and cause for a strike. Sorrowfully, Publisher Palmer hired a staff of scabs, insisting that, as a liberal...
Died. William S. Brown, 43, Minneapolis labor leader and for 17 years president of the potent General Drivers Union No. 544; from a shot fired by his bodyguard, Arnold Ralph Johnson; in Minneapolis. Johnson, who had been drinking all afternoon, told police: "Brown flashed a roll of bills. I asked him for a share and he refused. I drew a gun and shot him. He was my best friend...
...unemployed must be put to work. The products of their labor will increase the national income. It is a defiance of all natural laws to attempt to bring prosperity, however, by measures like the A. A. A. which seek to raise prices by reducing output...