Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Branded by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as "inexcusable" last week was a recent wildcat sit-down of 43 unionists in Allegheny Steel Co.'s Brackenridge. (Pa.) plant. Jealous of its record as a responsible party to labor contracts, S. W. O. C. promptly recommended that the company dock the wildcatters a week...
Passed by the Michigan Legislature last June was a broad new labor statute, inaccurately referred to as a "Little Wagner Act." Among the provisions of the law was a ban on: 1) mass picketing which obstructed "or otherwise interfered" with entrance to a striking plant; 2) picketing which obstructed public highways or 3) picketing by people not directly involved in the strike. This was not precisely what Labor-loving Governor Murphy wanted but he pronounced the measure a long step toward industrial peace...
...police had no authority to limit the number of pickets. The police argument that the marchers intended to storm Republic's plant was "groundless...
...Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan, Tammany's candidate to succeed the previous Fusion mayor, John Purroy Mitchell. Soon Whalen blossomed out as commissioner of plant & structures and holder of various other city offices. The one which made his reputation was secretary of Mayor Hylan's committee to welcome home coming troops after the War. He soon became the city's official welcomer. For years no notable arrived in New York harbor-not Lindbergh...
Brothers, with enrollment booming along with football receipts, sold their Oakland site for $750,000 and borrowed $1,500,000 on a bond issue to build a handsome new plant in the Moraga Valley. In 1934, with $1,370,500 of the bonds still outstanding, the Brothers stopped paying interest and have paid none since. When the bondholders' committee, formed under the chairmanship of Frederic F. Janney of Dean, Witter & Co. which floated the issue, installed their own Comptroller James Everett Butler to supervise the college accounts, he found that St. Mary's was running...