Word: plant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freeze into the law mandatory recognition of "any existing craft" as a bargaining unit-whether it includes one man or 100 in a plant, whether or not a majority of the workers in the plant want craft unions. (NLRB now has discretion to determine which type of bargaining unit seems fairest, in practice has decided in favor of A. F. of L. a majority of disputes directly involving this question. But precedents for deciding otherwise exist, hence bother A. F. of L.'s craft-conscious leadership...
...case of Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch i, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, William Leader et al. (TIME, March 27). The verdict: Branch i & its President Bill Leader would have to pay the well nigh impossible sum of $711,392.55 in recompense for damage done Apex's plant and business in a strike two years...
From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...
...Boeing plant, some 50 miles to the north in Seattle, work was stopped on ten other Stratoliners, three of which have been ordered by Pan American airways. Perplexed, President C. L. Egtvedt of Boeing declared: "It was . . . one of the best we have built. I can't believe the fault lay in the ship itself." Quick to deny that this implied sabotage was Boeing. But the facts remained that the first Stratoliner, carefully built and tested on the ground, had flown about 23 hours in closely supervised engineering tests without sign of structural weakness, that into her building...
...farmers hold their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...