Word: localism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland furniture plants were actually being picketed for wage increases and several non-union barbershops were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs...
Having investigated the Portland uproar the local Council of Churches wired President Roosevelt: "The local situation has reached an intolerable stage, and national influence ... is necessary to save the situation from serious consequences both to labor and the public." Portland's usually mild Mayor Joseph K. Carson, in Washington for the Mayors' Conference, dashed off a letter to Chairman Madden of the Labor Board demanding immediate intervention or "that you admit your inability to handle the situation or power to alleviate the workers...
Topping Oregon's labor problem is the current slump in the lumber industry. Only strong market is sawdust, used locally as fuel and now skyhigh at $12 a truckload. Another difficulty is the restless defiance which seems to pervade the whole Northwest. When a mob in Baker, Ore. recently ran a Beck organizer out of town with the help of local peace officers, Oregon's Governor Martin expressed public satisfaction. Few weeks ago in a Beck-Bridges dispute over some Seattle warehousemen, "the Tsar of Seattle Labor" threatened to close five warehouses if the Labor Board even held...
...than five years. ... Its former owner, in the presence of witnesses, offered to sell the picture to me for $80,000. . . . The painting's presence in Philadelphia represents not the intelligence and cultural levels of the general population, but the evil of having an absentee dictator of the local official art situation, who functions principally at the racetracks of Miami, Saratoga and Deauville...
...year-old, vast and grubby Charity Hospital New Orleans has a medical ulcer which long has pained the local medical profession. Last year Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche secured $3,600,000 from the Public Works Administration and Charity's new director Dr. George Samuel Bel immediately started tearing down old buildings to make room for a 20-story hospital, the only State institution where Louisiana citizens may get all types of free medical care. While reconstruction progressed, patients had to be bedded in any available shelter. For Charity's Negroes, the old Negro Pythian Temple...