Word: prevent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case to Senator Wagner concerns Edward Gowen Budd, Philadelphia manufacturer who built up a big business in all-steel automobile bodies and now is be- ginning to make stainless steel streamlined trains. Last November 1,300 of his workers went on strike charging that the company was trying to prevent the A. F. of L. from organizing its plants. The Regional Labor Board ordered Budd to take back the strikers and hold an election. Budd refused and refused again when the National Labor Board issued a similar order. Then an election was held in the plant and a company union...
...whether others than its employes voted. Precisely twelve votes were cast in Mrs. Herrick's election. Last week, indignant, she voided the election, called on the National Labor Board to act, charged that in sending unofficial observers the company had resorted to "deliberate and brazen intimidation" to prevent its workers from voting...
...more serious threats to the success of NRA than such disputes over the Labor Board's powers were strikes that the Board was trying to prevent...
...Racial purity by means of a law to prevent contamination through marriages between "true submen'' and undersized adults...
...Prevention" had notably failed to prevent. The Socialist and Syndicalist labor unions had learned the power of the strike. Their representatives in the Cortes had broken two Lerroux Cabinets. As regu- larly as clocks in a clock shop, the workers struck. By last week the plunging bronze horses on the pinnacle of Madrid's Banco de Bilbao were no more restless than Spanish Labor. Eighty thousand building workers threw down their tools because a handful of contractors was holding out against a 44-hour week. Over a thousand men walked out of a tobacco factory because one "Conservative" porter...