Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...driver wailed, "I'm slowly starving to death"-but he was making $45 a week. One shopkeeper summed it up: "Business is only fair, but it could be a lot worse." And out on Falihee Road, a gear-cutting company was building a new $4,000,000 plant. That meant 400 new jobs, when it was completed...
...equipment workers began streaming out of International Harvester's big plant, some 70 U.A.W. members were waiting at the gates with organizing leaflets. Local F.E.W. bosses pulled their workers back inside; when they came out again, they came out swinging-crowbars, steel hinges, and slabs of scrap iron...
...fact remains that forbidding the closed shop cannot be justified in industries where union hiring halls are necessary to handle rotation and seasonal employment, or in consideration of the necessity for demanding more than is wanted where union representatives cannot be sure of solid membership in a plant...
These two problems must rank highest on the Congressional agenda; but there are several others which have been thrown into chaos by the Taft-Hartley Law. The ban on jurisdictional strikes is justified if only on the grounds that nobody gets anything out of them, and that annual plant elections, while not eliminating these strikes, can at least cut them down. But the prohibition of secondary boycotts is a more complex matter: some of these are justified by the necessity for cohesion in the labor movement, while some wreak unfair harm on an employer who may have nothing...
Later, José wrote to one of his old pals of the 43rd, ex-Sergeant F. Allen Shippee, who now manages an ice plant in East Providence, R.I. José said that he wanted to come to the States to study agriculture, and would sell his carabao to pay for it. Shippee put up bond to permit him entry into the U.S. as a nonquota student, and fixed up a room for him in the Shippee home. Last week, Little Joe, with $32 in his pocket, arrived in Providence. For his old friends in the 43rd, he had brought along...