Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union next made a broader, bolder move to close the plants still operating. It set out to organize the ore mines in upper Michigan and Minnesota, to shut off Republic's ore supply. Representative John T. Bernard of Eveleth, Minn., one-time miner, fireman and labor leader-who signalized his appearance in Congress last January by delaying passage of the Neutrality Act until the Mar Cantabrico had sailed with a cargo of arms for Spanish Loyalists (TIME, Jan. 18)-hastened home from the Capital to help C.I.O. organize the iron-miners...
...Robinson's nephew William Park took over ASCO's presidency last spring when the tax fight was growing hot. He went to Philadelphia from a Michigan farm, started to work for his uncle at 20. He has been working in the same spot ever since, and though the building has changed the atmosphere has not. ASCO's general offices are as cluttered as a warehouse. President Park works in shirt sleeves behind a partition, washes his hands like the rest of the staff at an open sink in the corner. Pay telephones are provided for visitors. Placards...
...Lumberjacks from Michigan and Wisconsin arrived in boots, gay plaids, several days' growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...
...Lawyer Abram Fern Myers, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is trying to drive it through. Meanwhile Al Steffes is leading the drive for State legislation to outlaw block-booking and to divorce theatre ownership from producers and distributors. Such bills of divorcement bogged down in Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska and Illinois. One did pass in North Dakota, where it goes into effect in a year. The big producers are marshaling their forces to test its constitutionality in court. Last week North Dakota's Governor William A. Langer journeyed to Milwaukee to promise the Allied delegates that...
...University of Washington, Laborman Fremming steps softly until he is sure of his ground. After C. I. O. announced its drive for a million oil workers last spring, Governor Allred of Texas indulged in considerable breast-beating about how his great oil State was not going to be another "Michigan." Shot back by Laborman Fremming was a shrewd invitation to Governor Allred to help purge the oil workers' union of "any member subversive to American institutions...