Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glass Workers, demanding more pay, closed shop and check-off of union dues, added 5,600 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in Toledo, Shreveport and Charleston, W. Va., to the 1,300 already striking in Libbey's Ottawa, Ill. plant and 6,000 in five plants of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. U. S. manufacture of plate glass was thus brought virtually to a halt. Between.them, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh make 90% of the nation's plate glass, 85% of its automobile safety glass. Motormakers declared they would not suffer unless the glass strike was a long...
...warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last week, heard his pious and progressive lieutenant, Philip Murray, claim that Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers has already enrolled 128,000 of the nation's 500,000 steel workers, threaten trouble unless steelmasters cease their "dog-in-the-manger attitude." C. I. O. also defied...
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...Ottawa, Ill., 1,300 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. continued a sit-down in protest against a $4,000,000 job transferred from the Pittsburgh company...
...Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt...