Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later Pennsylvania militia took over the town and by November the workers were starved out, their union crushed. Last week some 4,000 steelworkers, solemn in shirtsleeves, massed on and around a hilltop playground for grimy Homestead's first union rally in 18 years...
...platform stood a huge sign urging "Join Now - No Initiation Fee - One Union for All Workers!" Four green-rib boned wreaths were inscribed: "In Memoriam. The Spirit of 1892 Lives On." Chief speaker was red-faced Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of United Mine Workers and Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania...
...chief of the armed and police forces of this State he will see that the workers are given their constitutional rights to organize. . . . This is a peace ful organization drive; no trouble is looked for. If the steel magnates throw the people into the streets, then the Pennsylvania Emergency Relief Board will find that these people are entitled to relief under the law." Straight from his steel-furnace job arrived Charles Scharbo to stumble in broken English through a Steel Workers' Declaration of Independence, paraphrasing the words of Thomas Jefferson at Philadelphia in 1776, and those of Franklin Roosevelt...
...week 170 more tough, hardened organizers will join the 30 which the Steel Workers Organizing Committee already has sent into the field. Next week will be held a great mass meeting near Homestead, at which the graves of the workers killed in the 1892 battle will be wreathed and Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor Thomas Kennedy, International Secretary-Treasurer of the U.M.W., will orate. Pleased as punch with the way the campaign was going Philip Murray barked confidently: "No obstacle which might be thrown in the way of this committee will deter...
...absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington] . . . at 40 m.p.h. at 10:30 a.m. of the forenoon of Jan. 30, 1936, and another man was similarly driving a Ford westward along the same section, from 17th to 18th, at 30 m.p.h. at 4 p. m. of the afternoon of Aug. 10, 1913. How swiftly...