Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previously had hoped to ease him out, confident Mr. Martin promptly began to squelch insubordinate subordinates, to assure automakers that neither they nor rambunctious unionists should expect to get away with anything. Meantime he had become deeper in Mr. Lewis' debt than any other big man in the labor movement...
...Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. seized that concern's plants at North Chicago, Ill. Against police assaults and court commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board clearly informed all employers that...
...violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power to protect property rights or punish illegal acts committed in the course of labor disputes, nor do we think there is any merit in [the] contention that [State courts] cannot have jurisdiction of any phase of the relations between employer and employe in a labor controversy affecting interstate commerce...
...heavy debating pressure upon His Majesty's Government in the House of Commons. Charges that Viscount Swinton as Air Secretary has made a muddle of his end of British Rearmament were hurled even by some M.P.s of the Government's own Conservative Party, by many Liberal and Labor M.P.s...
Laborites led in attacking Swinton's recent decision to buy some U. S. war planes (TIME, May 2), demanded a return to purchase of nothing but craft "built by honest British labor." Shouts of "Liar!" in which some Conservatives joined greeted a Government declaration that "British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...