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First kick was delivered in April while the Steel Workers Organizing Committee was negotiating with U.S. Steel for a 10?-an-hour raise. Just as a compromise seemed likely, non-union National gave its workers a voluntary 10? raise, thus forced U.S., Bethlehem, Republic, Otis, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, etc. to follow suit (TIME, April...
This enforced payment of union dues does not apply either to student or non-union employees. The University agrees, however, that from now on it will give the union applicants "first consideration for any jobs that may be open...
They were there at dawn when workers arrived for the morning shift. Some non-union men broke through. Pickets jeered. But there was no serious violence until 200 nonstriking Negroes, who had remained inside the beleaguered plant, made a sortie through Gate 4 armed with iron pipes, steel bars, bolts, razors, knives, and charged the pickets. Hot & heavy was the battle until the attackers withdrew, fled back inside...
Called "the Feverish Five" and "the non-union gang" by the Guild shop paper, the rebels fought back with charges of Guild intimidation, spying, "forced" repudiations of the A.F. of L., calculated suppression of unfavorable Guild news, union decisions based on an average 4% attendance at unit meetings, rigged elections and much else...
...about ready to settle down when he was offered a job by his brother's union. To fight open-shop contractors, the union was dynamiting structures built by non-union labor - not demolishing them, but twisting the whole framework by placing the explosives at the point of greatest stress, forcing the contractor to pull it down...