Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 500 troopers and highway patrolmen at his command Col. Augustine S. Janeway gave the plant's general manager until 12:30 a. m. Sunday to comply with the shut-down order. Nothing happened. Forthwith the colonel posted troopers at the gates with instructions to allow no one to enter, though anyone was free to leave. Pennsylvania R.R. was forbidden to deliver inbound shipments. After an eleven-hour siege Bethlehem officially surrendered, under "duress" and still vigorously protesting the illegality of the Governor's action. The company was allowed to keep 900 men for maintenance and minimum operations...
...Republican who looks like the late Will Rogers. He has been known as a friend of public power, a foe of C.I.O. Somewhat excitable by temperament, Mr. Hoffman by last week was downright jumpy. Though Monroe, Mich., where C.I.O. was beaten fortnight ago when Republic Steel's local plant was reopened after a brisk picket line skirmish, is not in Congressman Hoffman's district, a brief visit there was enough...
...start of the Memorial Day riot outside Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant, a Paramount newsreel cameraman named Orlando Lippert had his truck parked about 50 ft. from the centre of the police line. Cameraman Lippert was the only newsreel man on hand, his rivals, despairing of action from a holiday crowd sprinkled with women & children, having packed off to the automobile races in Indianapolis. Except for the two or three times he stopped to shift lenses for closeup or wide-angle shots, Cameraman Lippert kept his eye glued to his view finder throughout the whole bloody affair...
...Federation of Labor to the militant Committee for Industrial Organization, but served notice that it was out for industrial bear by voting 118 ½-to-18 ½ for industrial unionization- which would mean eventual Guild membership for every last copy boy, circulation solicitor and advertising stenographer in a newspaper plant (TIME, June 21). Hardly had word of this bold decision dried on the front pages of the nation's press than the publishers answered the challenge. Goaded to action by chesty little James Geddes ("Jimmy") Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner and newly elected president of the American Newspaper...
...when he was told to take the midnight train to Detroit. There was hardly a day from then on that Chicago did not see a Lahey story from the strike front. Once he got home for a few days and promptly went out to cover the Fansteel plant battle so closely that he inhaled a load...