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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same hour, same day as the Democratic National Convention opened in Philadelphia last month, 9,000 members of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America went on strike at RCA Manufacturing Co.'s plant at Camden, N. J. Official demands of this potent industrial union were a closed shop, abolition of RCA's company union, a 20% wage increase. Real objectives were recognition by RCA of the union as sole collective bargaining agency within the plant, the same working conditions accorded employes of the nearby Philco Radio and Television Corp. factory...
...strike cease, refused to recognize John Lewis' United Workers as the sole bargaining agency even if a Labor Relations Board poll should show it to represent a majority of RCA's plant employes. One afternoon last week a crowd of 3,000. including 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp. sympathizers, went after RCA employes as they filed out of the plant. Bricks, stones and clubs flew freely in a two-hour pitched battle (see cuts). Next day another skirmish of equal fury took place. Sitting as a committing magistrate, Justice Lloyd held 121 strikers and sympathizers...
...Nazi Germany's most dangerous clowns is round, red Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, who affects a riding crop, likes to be called the "Bloody Tsar of Nürnberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann...
...first cinema ever taken inside a Catholic convent (TIME, June 1) was concluding a successful Manhattan showing, newspaper readers beheld the first close-up still photographs ever snapped in the U. S. to show young Catholic girls entering religious life. In the new chapel of Villa Lucia in Morristown, N. J., cameras clicked, floodlights glared when 21 Italianate young women renounced the world, took the simple vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, received the habit of the Maestre Pie Filippini (Religious Teachers of Philip) in the U. S. Motherhouse of that old Italian order...
...Henry Schroder & Co. is one of the "Big Three" of British private banking, sharing the title with Baring Bros, and N. M. Rothschild & Sons. Founded in 1804, Schroder always has Schroders as partners, now boasts the third and fourth generations of the family in Baron Bruno Schroder and his son Helmut William Bruno Schroder. Formed shortly after the War to handle U. S. interests, J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. will continue to operate as a commercial bank...