Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plant in whose office I am employed is now shut down due to labor difficulties, of which this instance is one of many. The office force, though never involved in the disputes, is perforce out of work...
Murphy. The Judiciary sub-committee did not bother to call Frank Murphy before approving him as Attorney General. But he, whose nonenforcement of a court order to eject sit-down strikers from a General Motors plant at Flint in 1937 had been cited against him, was not satisfied. He asked to appear to give "the real, inside story" of his sit-down conduct, which he had never told because "I never wanted to impair my position as mediator." Now that he was no longer Governor he would speak...
...handsome, heavy-browed young Jay C. was walking through his Austin, Minn, plant, laying off employes. Suddenly one of his men turned on him and said...
...Hormel & Co. tried an experiment, offered its smokehouse employes a guaranteed annual wage to ease the shock of layoffs, the strain of rushes. Since then the company has made industrial history with a "straight-time" annual wage plan, under which workers in Hormel's big main plant at Austin are paid a stated wage for a stated amount of work, regardless of the time it takes them...
...items and selling them cheaply, Samuel Kunin & Sons, Inc. grew fast. Last year they grossed nearly $5,000,000-a third as much as lumbering old Sprague Warner, which was having tough going with its 11,000 items (including 84 brands of coffee), its 550,000-square-foot Chicago plant, its warehouses in 18 cities...