Word: non-union
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...with the striking hosiery workers in Reading, Philadelphia and Lansdale, the issue in Fayette County was Unionization under the National Recovery Act. Focus of trouble was the non-union H. C. Frick Coke Co., subsidiary of the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. Even before the Recovery Act was passed in June, Frick Coke started organizing a company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke...
...Organizing labor will be a major difficulty in the bituminous coal business, one-fifth of which is mined by union men. The other 300,000,000 annual tons is dug by non-union workers...
...Boston Symphony badly needs whatever it can get. Boston's band has never been offered a sizeable radio contract before. To help meet this season's deficit, which without N. B. C.'s help would have run to some $93,000, Conductor Sergei Koussevitsky and his non-union orchestra (only one in the U. S.) lately offered to turn back $46,000 from their salaries...
...came while Kaplan was defending himself and his union rule in Manhattan Supreme Court on a receivership-and-damage suit filed by four members of Local 306. During the trial the judge discovered that Defendant Kaplan and two bodyguards were armed with pearl-handled revolvers, wrathfully ordered them to check their weapons with the court clerk. Witness after witness at the trial testified that Kaplan's men had "socked" them for speaking out at union meetings, had even threatened them with death. Evidence was brought out to show that a non-union cinema circuit was comparatively unmolested by Kaplan...
Dixie Bee. It was midnight on the Wabash. Eight miles inland from the Indiana bank, 64 haggard non-union miners and one woman held the Dixie Bee coal mine, besieged by an invisible swarm of union pickets. For a day and a night and a day their rifles and revolvers had stood off hundreds, possibly thousands, of John L. Lewis' men, squatting in a cornfield, crouching behind a railroad embankment, sniping from a patch of woods. The barricaded tipple house was pockmarked with bullets. One sharpshooting picket had been drilled dead. Within the mine on burlap sacks lay four defenders...