Word: non-union
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...table now lay such an agreement-a fat document providing for the unionization of all the soft coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Tennessee, part of Kentucky.- Offshoot of the NRA coal code, the agreement prescribed conditions of labor for some 314,000 diggers in hitherto non-union mines. It gave United Mine Workers their own checkweightmen, their own grievance committees, freed them from the necessity of living in company houses, trading at company stores, opened new jobs now held by some 6,000 boys under 17. Out of it operators got the assurance that there would...
...Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers...
Next day Cleveland's Frank Taplin, famed union mine operator who wants a U. M. W. code, called on Administrator Johnson, declared: "General, you're letting that gang of non-union Appalachian operators make a sucker out of you." Rapped back General Johnson: "You wouldn't think so if you knew what I told them yesterday...
...injunction. Super-solemn Communist Minor, 49, thrice married, is the son of a Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle, of course. They all do. But the Blue Eagle is a blue buzzard for the workers. So come on out and strike...
...same time to keep their plants non-union the motor makers got this provision into their approved code: ''Employers in the industry may exercise their right to select, retain or advance employes on the basis of individual merit, without regard to their membership or nonmembership in any organization." Wrathfully organized labor pointed out that "merit" would be made a cloak behind which manufacturers would discharge union workers. NRA's Labor Advisory Board reluctantly accepted the stipulation, warned that it was no precedent. But other non-union code makers in Washington quickly took their cue from the automobile...