Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis refused to cross the picket line, even declined an offer to cross if the pickets were temporarily withdrawn.* Four days later in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, while he was in the midst of a wage conference with coal operators, an emissary interrupted him with the disturbing news that two pickets of the A. F. of L.'s Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis sent friends to see whether this labor dispute could not be settled. It was impossible. The pickets were protesting because the firm to which the swanky...
...itself up as a rival federation of labor to the American Federation of Labor. Last year when A. F. of L. leaders suspended C.I.O. unions, they charged that C.I.O. was an attempt to set up a "dual organization," a charge that was indignantly denied. Last week when the news reached the Federation's President William Green, he looked sick and said I-told-you-so: "It was clearly evident from the beginning that this objective would be finally reached, that the C.I.O. would move on to the point where they would decide to function as a rival organization...
...strikes. Prime ingredient of the formula was demoralization of strikers and winning of public sympathy by back-to-work movements "operated by a puppet association of so-called 'loyal employes' secretly organized by the employer." Other features included branding of strike leaders as "agitators," constant propaganda in news and advertisements, threats to close or move plants, plentiful use of strikebreakers including '"missionaries" who would visit strikers' homes under false names. The unsavory details of these tactics were revealed when the National Labor Relations Board called Remington Rand on the carpet on charges of coercion and discrimination...
...Into the news next blazed Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, hitherto a quiet competitor. Her trouble last week was with one of the men who have given her valuable assistance in the race-Mr. Harold H. Madill whom the Canadian press last week was calling "Mr. X." When Husband Clarke quit after siring only four children, Mr. Madill unselfishly stepped in to sire five more. By last week Mrs. Clarke's confidence in this second collaborator had somewhat waned, and after obtaining a court order to eject Mr. X from her house she was trying out a third...
...showed his close sympathy with Blum, however, by remarking to Washington correspondents: "So far as putting ten $100 bills in an envelope and sending the money to France for investment is concerned, there is no way to stop that." As $1,000 is 21,000 francs this was big news to Blum and even to Republican Senator Hiram W. Johnson, author of the Act. "The law is perfectly plain!" snapped the Senator. "It is unspeakable that any American or any official of the Government should seek to evade...