Word: non-union
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...Important repair work on 17 U.S. and British ships was delayed when 6,000 C.I.O. workers at Robins Drydock and Repair Co., New York, quit work for three days. Reason: acetylene-torch burners would not work beside four non-union burners...
Beginning tonight, carloads of Harvard students will make daily treks to the Fore River Plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation to help the C.I.O. organize the laborers in the last non-union industrial plant connected with defense...
Violinist Zimbalist said he was disappointed. But he and Szigeti must have known what they were in for when they joined Petrillo's union, for Little Caesar Petrillo has long vowed to bring the Boston Symphony to heel. It is now the only big non-union orchestra in the U.S. Following the policy of its late benefactor Colonel Henry Lee Higginson, the Symphony pays union-scale wages and pensions, but believes that union limitations on rehearsals, hirings and firings would do it artistic harm...
...union shop for all Ford plants in the U.S., covering some 120,000 employes. (A "union shop" agreement permits the hiring of non-union men but requires them to join afterwards...
...associated with certain movements commonly called radical." >> Alabama's Governor Frank Dixon and wife got out and thumbed a while when their car broke down in.the country; hitchhiked 20 miles on a truck. >> Katharine Cornell, member of Actors Equity (A.F. of L.), was picketed for employing a non-union chauffeur. >> Cinemoguls Louis B. Mayer and Harry M. Warner were cited by California's racing board on charges of doping their race horses with caffeine. They denied the charges, and will appear before the board this week...