Word: labors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enemy, which claims 3,600,000 members. First example of his new tactics followed forthwith. In Manhattan Mr. Carey's union sued for an injunction to restrain A. F. of L. from boycotting (refusing to install or handle) electrical products made by C. I. O. workers. Thus Labor, by requesting an injunction, turned upon itself a favorite weapon of anti-union employers...
...where John Lewis last month pretty well stymied A. F. of L. for the next two years by winning a contract which binds most of the industry to employ only members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive...
...offices. In these and many another, the same story generally holds good: C. I. O. in its first burst of organization in 1936-37 did the spadework; A. F. of L. came in later, organizing the same industries and even the same shops where C. I. O. had won Labor's first important gains...
...With that much money, WPA can give work to 2,000,000 clients, one-third less than the 1939 average. But $125,000,000 of it was earmarked for PWA, which is required to hire only 25% of its labor from Relief rolls. Off WPA's 2,000,000 that will knock 170,000 workers...
Many a small businessman confronted by a National Labor Relations Board complaint has ruefully decided it was cheaper to sign a consent decree, setting up new labor conditions in his plant, than to fight the case. Hartley Wade Barclay, editor of the industrial monthly Mill and Factory discovered one big reason why this is true. Intrigued by wholesale capitulation of small business in labor cases, Editor Barclay investigated the cost of defenses to NLRB complaints. Ruling out the automobile company cases because the amounts expended were so large that they would unbalance his study, he last week published his finding...