Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wagner Bill. In order to put a stop to this retreat, the A. F. of L. wanted: 1) a ban on company unions; 2) power for the Labor Relations Board to compel labor elections in any plant; 3) the right to give orders to all employes of a business once it succeeded in organizing a bare majority. These three things the Wagner Bill provides...
...what it thought it was gaining when Section ya became law. The company unions will supposedly suffer. The A. F. of L., being already organized, will have a distinct advantage over all other unions. It can bide its time until it gains a majority of the workers in any plant, then secure an election," and with its majority gain the sole right of bargaining in that plant, a hold which it is not likely to lose once gained, for no employe could have any object in joining a minority union...
...Last week after again threatening a general automobile shutdown by a strike in Toledo's Chevrolet transmissions plant-a strike which forced the closing of 16 other General Motors plants-A. F. of L. again made peace without gaining its major point, a written contract with General Motors. *The argument: Depressions interfere with interstate commerce; depressions occur and are aggravated because workers have not enough purchasing power; workers lack purchasing power because they have not enough bargaining power to get high wages: the Wagner Hill will give it to them. Also: Strikes interfere with interstate commerce: some strikes result...
...weeks later the Albers (FlapJack) Milling Co. plant made a roaring fire with a $300,000 loss. Seattle's ball park spiraled in smoke. Executives and their underlings opened the morning mail to find printed notes threatening fires. Factory after factory burned. Lumber yards, stacked high with fir and cedar from Washington's forests, became kindling pyres. A boxcar, filled with new Buicks specially built with right-hand drives for shipment to the Orient, became a pile of ashes and twisted steel. Seattle's nominally low 60? per capita fire loss zoomed to $1.40 in four years...
...eight-page printed edition of the Republican, but not until four strikebreakers and one striker were mauled, linotype machines battered by vandals and advertisement forms destroyed. A truckload of rotogravure sections from New York was hijacked, burned. Next day all four papers reverted to the typewriter and photo-engraving plant for most of their pages...