Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Michael Schwab, 75, who became manager of Homestead Steel plant immediately after the bloody union-crushing of 1892 when ten men were killed, and who last week returned to the U. S. from taking the cure at Bad Nauheim, the current upheavals between Labor and Capital are merely "a phase...
Michigan was quiet. The Newton Steel Co. (subsidiary of Republic) plant re-opened by Mayor Knaggs of Monroe and his civilian army (TIME, June 21) remained unmolested by the angry union motor workers though they threatened to boycott its product...
Youngstown continued in a state of siege, and when a Saturday crowd of women strike sympathizers started heckling Sheriff Ralph Elser's police cordon at the Republic Steel plant, a riot started in which police tear gas was answered by birdshot and bullets from thousands of unionists. Two men were killed, 25 persons wounded, including Mary Heaton Vorse, liberal writer...
With the United Mine Workers demonstration looming over the week end, Governor Earle had asked Bethlehem's President Grace to close down the Cambria Works in the interest of domestic tranquillity. Mr. Grace refused on the ground that "to close the plant would involve the admission on our part that the forces of law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are powerless to protect our men in the exercise of their right to work. We cannot assume the grave responsibility of making such an admission." If the plant had to be closed, said Steelman Grace...
...some time later he had produced the following: many thousands of dollars for 1) improvements in the health plant which is at present inadequate to care for us properly, especially in epidemic time; 2) fireproofiing and fire escapes for Harvard and Sever Halls. Of course, there never will be a fire there, but when it comes some few of us may be messed up; 3) making more of the precious and at present uncatalogued books in the Library available to us and creating a unified and separate music library; 4) endowing athletics so that our full program may be really...