Word: nonunion
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...Alameda mayor, city manager, and councilmen for bribery and theft of public funds; became the recognized legislative spokesman for the state's 58 district attorneys. None of his convictions was ever reversed after appeal to higher courts. His most famous case: the 1936 dockside murder of the nonunion chief engineer of the freighter Point Lobos, for which three union officials and one fingerman were convicted. The trial was conducted amid cries of "frame-up" from labor, and followed by an admission that one juror had lent $24,000 to a deputy district attorney...
...Philadelphia plant had made-no effort to get some 1,000 nonunion, nonstriking employes through the picket lines. The union had permitted daily passage of maintenance workers. The company had asked and obtained an injunction against mass picketing. Lawful picketing went on as it had before...
...Most of the soldiers were grass-green. They had to be taught tire-building work, but they received the prevailing wage scale for experienced workers in addition to their Army pay. Most of the civilians belonged to C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America, while the soldiers were nonunion...
...Some famous Holmes dissents: Coppage v. Kansas (1915), which gave employers the right to require nonunion pledges as a condition of employment; United States v. Schwimmer (1929), which denied citizenship to Rozika Schwimmer because she testified at her citizenship hearing that she would not bear arms in case...
...Boss Caesar Petrillo last week spotted a hole in the dike he had raised against new phonograph recordings. Record companies were waxing singers with all-vocal (hence nonunion) rather than instrumental accompaniment (TIME, June 28). Petrillo quickly stuck his thumb in the hole, asked singers to quit doing that. His request was really an ultimatum. Vocalists like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra or Connie Boswell well knew that failure to comply might bar them from future recordings or appearances with Boss Petrillo's union musicians...