Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exploded Steelman Purnell: "What right has the Governor to send troops in to prevent men from working? The Governor's job is to protect men who wish to work. . . . It's gotten so now that a man can't work in this country when he wants...
...C.LO. She Blow Up." Returning to Cleveland by plane, Steelman Girdler found good news awaiting him. With back-to-work sentiment hardening into effective political pressure, Governor Davey announced that the Right to Work was as "sacred" as the Right to Strike. To his troops flashed orders to protect all workers who wanted to return to their jobs. The same militiamen who had received such a warm welcome when they marched into the Mahoning Valley early in the week were now roundly damned by the union as public strikebreakers...
...apparent that the strike would not be settled by mediation. Governor Earle decided his enforced shut-down was no longer warranted. Having decided to permit the Bethlehem plant to reopen, having determined to prevent bloodshed by keeping State troopers on the scene, the Governor had only one course open: protect non-strikers from violence. Since law & order is seldom compatible with an effective strike, this "Labor Governor" too found himself in Labor's eyes a strikebreaker...
...field of research into the mechanism and control of disease is opened up by the possibility of treating its cause as a pure chemical compound. It is not unreasonable to hope that experiments of this type will some day indicate a new way in which the body can protect itself against dis-ease...
...asked Bethlehem's President Grace to close down the Cambria Works in the interest of domestic tranquillity. Mr. Grace refused on the ground that "to close the plant would involve the admission on our part that the forces of law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are powerless to protect our men in the exercise of their right to work. We cannot assume the grave responsibility of making such an admission." If the plant had to be closed, said Steelman Grace, it was up to the Governor to issue the order...