Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor grew restive. Always keen to get into Monterrey, the Mexican Confederation of Labor (CTM) struck a key glass factory last June, forced the Government to seize it and satisfy worker demands. The Government still runs the plant, reputedly at a big loss. Some regiomontanos favor starting another plant like it and running the Government out of business. Others see changing times, the first threat of expropriation...
...graduate of Choate and Yale, he started as a pickle-salting hand for $1 a day in the Plymouth, Ind. plant where his father started before him. Later stints in the Berkeley, Calif, plant as cleanup man and in the London branch as pickle peddler helped him through the lower ranks. In 1936 he settled down in Pittsburgh for final grooming before taking over the family empire...
...biggest plant, Tennessee Eastman, a majority of the workmen voted for no union at all. At the smallest, Monsanto Chemical Co., the A.F.L. came out on top. At the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals factory, where the C.I.O. had trailed the A.F.L. in the first election, it now won by a molecule (25 votes out of 3,811 cast...
...would not soon get better. Shipments of livestock to slaughtering centers had dried up; many slaughterers closed up shop indefinitely, along with thousands of butchers. In a week in which it would normally purchase and process 9,000 cattle and 26,000 hogs, Armour & Co.'s main plant in Chicago took in only 68 cattle, 139 hogs...
...once a Hearst newspaper was in trouble and no other publisher was pleased. This was no ordinary strike. As Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.) pickets circled the Los Angeles Herald & Express' baroque, block-sized plant for the second week, it shaped up as a test case for the press of the nation...