Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declaring himself tired of C. I. O. attempts to organize his workers, the general manager of Apex Hosiery Co., Philadelphia's biggest non-union hosiery mill, shut down his plant one day at noon, locking out 2,500 employes. Massing outside, they were joined by some 10,000 sympathetic workers from other mills. For a while the ugly-tempered crowd contented itself with milling, muttering, shying an occasional stone through plant windows. Suddenly some 300 men detached themselves from the main body and, while the mob set up a terrifying roar, battered their way through a line...
...honor of George VI's Coronation, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt took spade in hand, planted two English hawthorns in the Shakespeare Garden of Manhattan's Central Park. Told that a similar spade had once been used to plant a tree there in honor of Edward VIII, the President's mother murmured: "The poor boy. He got into bad hands, didn't he? He was a naughty...
...simple reason that he was its president until a year ago, has been board chairman for several years. It was named Lea Fabrics, Inc. after its onetime president and General Johnson's great friend, Robert WT. Lea. Lea fabrics is a $1,500,000 company with a plant in Newark, N. J., where 20 employes turn out automobile carpets for General Motors, Chrysler, many another motormaker. Last week a letter from Chairman Johnson outlined for Lea stockholders the difficulties their company was in as a result of the undistributed profits...
...Plant for their last big social events of the year are receiving final touches at Eliot and Lowell House as the Elephants and Bellboys prepare for their Spring dances tomorrow night...
...Participation in a sit-down strike is the performance of an illegal act and if any occurred in a plant of mine I wouldn't hesitate to advise discharge...