Word: localization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened by force if necessary. With the cooperation of the local American Legion whose members undertook to patrol the city, the entire police force helped open the plant. Several hundred nonstriking workmen in automobiles with horns blowing, as well as men, women and children from the town flocked along to see the ousting of the pickets...
...Washington stormed white-thatched James A. Emery, general counselor for the National Association of Manufacturers. Fist clenched, he damned the bill as unconstitutional, cumbersome and certain to hoist consumer prices. "The vast and ambiguous . . . ocean of authority . . . granted to a board of five . . . will obliterate the last vestige of local self-government." What the country really needed from Congress, he said, was legislation to fasten some responsibility upon labor unions...
Sixty-five miles away in Pontiac, the United Automobile Workers local union, some 15,000 strong, inflamed by the news of what had happened to their C.I.O. cousins, declared a general holiday and announced a mass march on Monroe to close the Newton steel mill. Governor Murphy advised the auto men's chief, Homer Martin, to advise the Pontiac union against it. He did, and the march was called...
After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...
...important accomplishments of the Harvard Student Council, the revival of which began last year when its constitution was brought up to date. Led by an enterprising chairman in 1936-37, the Council made seven major investigations, awarded twenty-two scholarships, gave 42500 to Phillips Brooks House, $1000 to local charities, and rescued 1200 middies from the subway island in Harvard Square on the day of the Harvard-Navy game...