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They came with their shillelaghs-florid-faced Thomas Francis McMahon swinging the threat of a cotton textile strike and pug-nosed Michael Francis Tighe brandishing what looked dangerously like a steel strike. If either or both landed a good stiff wallop with their clubs. General Johnson's job-making program with NRA would be sent sprawling in the dust of more labor troubles...
...next twelve weeks, until some of the 332,000,000 yards of unsold cotton goods now on hand could be disposed of. A 25% cut in machine hours meant a 25% cut in man hours and a 25% cut in wages. Unless the order were canceled Tom McMahon promised to call a strike of the United Textile Workers, promised that 300,000 men would walk out. Said he: "The issue at stake apparently is whether the workers are willing to accept a 25% wage reduction. The answer based upon telegrams from our workers North and South is an emphatic...
...McMahon, born in Ballybay, County Monaghan, used the word "apparently" with Irish adroitness. He knew that the cotton mills, if they went on piling up a surplus, would soon have to shut down altogether, that General Johnson's order was really a means of spreading work and pay with minimum hardships to labor. As a matter of strategy he protested the order to offer a substitute: reduction of working hours from 40 to 30 per week and a proportionate increase in pay. Next he made a tactical retreat from his own substitute to take up a winning position which...
...Twitchell, lf 5 1 3 0 0 Carr, 2b 5 1 2 1 0 Thom, c 4 0 3 0 0 Ingalls, p 5 0 3 6 1 40 11 30 18 4 Cambridge High Crawley, ss 5 3 1 1 1 Rooney, 3b 4 0 0 0 0 McMahon, 2b 3 0 2 3 0 Galluccio, c 5 2 9 0 0 Bourges, lf 4 1 0 0 0 Guerrl, cf 5 0 5 0 0 Courtney, rf 1 0 0 0 0 Corcoran, lf 5 1 8 0 1 Connors, p 2 2 1 1 0 Frisoli...
...HARVARD CAMBRIDGE HIGH Gallagher, c.f. 3b., Rooney Carr, 2b. r.f., Galluccio O'Brien, 1b. 2b., McMahon Gianino, r.f. l.f., Bourges Lockwood, s.s. s.s., Crawley Gannott, l.f. c.f., Guerri Colony, 3b. 1b., Corcoran Thom, c. c., Spartachino Wood or Ingalls, p. p., Connors...