Word: non-union
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...Said the report: "The industries concerned most directly with national defense were almost entirely non-union in 1917. Now they are 30 to 40% unionized, with aggressive organizing campaigns under way or projected in most fields...
...Carteret, N. J., members of C. I. O.'s United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, joined by non-union employes, walked out of the Foster Wheeler Corp. plant. Reason: they had been refused a 10% pay rise. Neil Brant, union organizer, was arrested for defiling the U. S. flag. He had pounded on the flag when it was draped over the chairman's table at a strike meeting. ¶ In Chicago, a strike at the International Harvester Tractor Works threatened to spread to the huge McCormick Works next door. Struck were the Harvester Rock Falls...
...more beautiful post-war Britain. Today 99% of all new building operations is under direct Government control and private building can be done only under a special license. This does not apply to repairs and patching up of Blitzed houses, which is fast be coming a nationwide non-union job in which everybody has a hand...
Colorfully bound were three printed booklets given out at the trial: the briefs of both sides, and a general record of the case. (The printer was non-union...
...last month told the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce that in most cases erection of new plants or additions should be avoided if possible. Last week they found further support in an unexpected quarter: C. I. O.'s Philip Murray. Charging that a handful of insiders (notably non-union Bethlehem) were hogging defense business, he claimed that 3,000,000 tons of capacity were still lying idle in smaller plants (like Granite City, Lukens). Somewhat uncomfortably, the Iron & Steel Institute accepted Murray's support in the expansion battle, admitted his charge was just...