Word: non-union
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...been here in a non-union war plant for six months, and not once have I been asked to join a union. Everybody is afraid even to talk about unions. The newspapers, the radio and the employers are all cracking down on labor...
...record of arrests: felonious assault, 1929; assault, 1931; felonious assault, 1932; malicious mischief (planting "stink bombs"), 1937. The tabloid Daily News, strongly anti-New Deal, swung from the floor with a double-truck haymaker, telling how Hoffman, in 1940, was convicted for trying to start a fire in a non-union cleaning & dyeing plant by sending clothes in which had been hidden incendiary phosphorous pellets coated with paraffin (which would melt when heated during the cleaning process...
...longest struggles in U.S. labor history last week came to an end. Sergei Koussevitzky's superb Boston Symphony, only surviving major non-union orchestra in the U.S., finally knuckled under to Boss James Caesar Petrillo's Federation of Musicians...
Labor's New Order in music continued its efforts to force the union label on the Boston Symphony Orchestra last week. From musical Rochester, N.Y. came word that the only major non-union orchestra in the U.S. will not play its annual December concert at Rochester's Eastman Theater this year. Reason: a threatened boycott of the theater by all union musicians...
...carried for twenty-two years with notable increases in wage scales and decreases in amateur competition, he is a popular and useful phenomenon. To musical artists, of whom he has said that there is "no difference between Heifetz playing the fiddle and a fiddler in a tavern," to the non-union Boston Symphony, to the moguls of canned music and juke boxes, and to the record buying public he is an obstinately unpleasant phenomenon...