Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Lewis called Organizer Bittner off steel and sent him into the almost wholly unorganized meat industry, there were no illusions in his huge, brooding head. He knew that the packing industry's labor policies are far from being as perishable as its products. Packinghouse workers have a non-union tradition. Since a big strike was crushed in 1886 in Chicago, only two major labor disturbances - one in 1904, one in 1921-have troubled the stockyards. Each was finally throttled. Workers are low-paid. Their wages rank 13th among the 15 major industries. But nearly all larger packers...
Laborites Lewis and Bittner moved slowly and thoroughly. They did not risk the splits and premature rough stuff that C. I. O. permitted to occur elsewhere. Chicago packinghouse labor lives "back of the yards" in a wide, dismal area of ramshackle homes and crumby tenements. Nearly all now belong to the C. I. O. Nearly all are devout Roman Catholics...
...religious angle makes the Chicago packers' labor dispute unique, and it will help to shape the outcome, whether the decision is wrought over a council table or fired over a bloody barricade. For while Lewis has been selling them material self-betterment, another man has long been concerned with the packinghouse people's souls...
...Bittner's platform large as life after the strike vote was taken. In fact, he read the invocation, then sat on the platform, one chair removed from Lewis, who key-noted the threatened strike. The good Bishop realized well that in actively applying a Papal Encyclical to a labor dispute he was making not only Chicago, but U. S. history...
Last week in a small dining room at the U. S. Immigration station on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay, these questions & answers started and summarized the most important deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping...