Word: non-union
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...Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis sent friends to see whether this labor dispute could not be settled. It was impossible. The pickets were protesting because the firm to which the swanky Biltmore lets out its cockroach killing employs non-union labor. Again John L. Lewis had no choice. He packed up his papers, asked to have the conference adjourned to the Engineers' Club...
These flare-ups were reported as signs of rising non-union resentment against the strike. Another explanation of them was last week being explored in Anderson by three government agencies. Secretary Perkins dispatched an investigator after a U. A. W. vice president swore that G. M. superintendents and foremen had led the Anderson mob, were doing all they could to intimidate strikers, stir up violence against them...
...group of unionists approached the plant manager, demanded recognition. Company guards leaped to the manager's defense, fists flew, shots were fired, 15 were injured. A crowd of men forced their way into plant No. 4 and "sat down," subsequently engaging in a fire-hose battle with non-union workmen. Thereupon, under orders from Governor Murphy, 1,200 troops of the Michigan National Guard moved into the zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away a union sound truck, had four agitators jailed. Since the troops allowed no one into the zone without...
Licensed men (masters, mates, pilots, engineers) won pay increases and other benefits but conceded the right of shipowners to pick ships' officers and employ non-union men. Two of the seven striking unions had not yet reached agreements, but settlements were expected by arbitration or otherwise. Human nature in the West had grown just as weary as in the East...
...shut down. Far from resting on its arms, G. M. continued to cultivate with spirit and shrewdness the public sympathy drawn to it by: 1) its reasonableness in offering to negotiate any issue when the strikers should cease their "unlawful occupation" of its plants; 2) the plight of non-union workers unwillingly deprived of work & pay. In Manhattan, President Sloan issued a vigorous statement rehearsing both points. Listeners to the nation-wide General Motors radio hour heard a homily on "The Right to Work." In Detroit, Vice President Knudsen announced that, to give 95,000 nonstriking employes at least part...