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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the Third Circuit Appeals Court ruled that the Sherman Act could not be invoked against a C. I. O. union by Philadelphia's Apex Hosiery Co., returned a triple-damage fine of $711,932.55, gave unions hope they are as yet beyond the purview of anti-trust laws...
After 54 days of industrial warfare, peace came last week to Detroit. All that time Chrysler Corp. had been closed and 56 glass and rubber plants as well as many other supply factories throughout the U. S. were also closed. Automobiles which people wanted to buy were not being made. Perhaps 150,000 workers who needed work and wages got neither. Best name for this standstill was what the Irish called their six-year civil war: the Trouble...
...midnight last week in Detroit, in a little room of Chrysler's Institute of Engineering, Messrs. Keller, Murray and U. S. Conciliator Jim Dewey had a final private chat. Outside were the union's President Roland Jay Thomas and Richard Frankensteen (whose tactless tactics helped prolong the strife). Jim Dewey excitedly emerged, announced: "I am happy to announce an agreement...
...Last week, in the grandiose splendors of the Library of Congress, two attendants on the second-floor gallery carefully wrestled a 17-inch square bronze frame into a metal stand. One of wrathful King John's four copies, brown and dim with age, its Latin screed legible only to the learned, now rested safe in Washington, capital of a nation two centuries undiscovered when the barons camped at Runnymede...
What Ohioans were wondering last week was why there was not more of a stink about the relief deadlock in Cleveland. Relief funds in Cleveland continued to dwindle, approximately 16,000 unemployed (ablebodied, unmarried, childless couples) were dropped from food lists, left to feed themselves, somehow. Cut to crusts were the food allowances of families with children...