Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...models. The plant normally employs only 600 men at this time of year, was making only 60 cars per day before the strike. And in spite of mass picketing by 500 other C.I.O. unionists, the assembly line continued to roll, though at considerably reduced speed. The significant automobile labor news of the week was made not in St. Louis,, not in any motor plant but in the minds of U. A. W. leaders in and around Detroit...
Greyhound Corp., or rather one division of it, Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, has made labor news before. The first case heard by the National Labor Relations Board was a complaint that Pennsylvania Greyhound had fired a group of employes for deserting its company union in favor of A. F. of L.'s Street & Electric Railway & Motor Coach Employes. The Labor Board ruled out the company union, ordered the employes reinstated. For a time it looked as if Greyhound would be the key case in the Supreme Court's review of the Wagner Act, but that honor finally went...
...elusive news. The only tangible development was the decision by the "unity" group in the U. A. W. high command to make one more attempt to oust President Homer Martin and his "Progressives" at a special U. A. W. convention to be called by rank & file petition. But the terrific backstage struggle for union control appeared so significant that the country's No. 1 labor reporter, Louis Stark of the New York Times, went to Detroit for the entire week...
...kept by a brother of M. Deloncle, discovered and seized three sabres. Papers seized by the police, who have been calling their suspects collectively Les Cagoulards ("The Hooded Men"), mentioned a Comité Secret d'Action Révolutionnaire or C.S.A.R. Promptly Les Cagoulards became Le Csar in news stories...
Putting two and two together and making news, Attorney McWilliams had reported to the committee that in Tsar Browne's Chicago bailiwick, newspapers reporting two 1935 labor murders had referred to Bioff and one Montana as "South Side gunmen wanted for questioning" and as "bodyguards for George E. Browne." When the hearings got under way, however, the committee found this stuff a little too hot to handle, and, after a week of inquiry into I.A.T.S.E.'s Hollywood methods, the investigation was adjourned. If Attorney McWilliams can authenticate his allegations, the inquiry will be resumed...