Word: protection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must save his union's face. He called for a mass meeting at Monroe of union men from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Mayor Knaggs, who already had a large part of his aroused constituents under arms, appealed vociferously to Governor Murphy for militia and State police to protect his city from the expected mob. The Governor finally arranged that the meeting should be held at a State park three miles from Monroe, promised to have 350 guardsmen on hand to keep the union men out of the anti-union town and also see that the union's "right...
There 10,000 strike sympathizers assembled, heard Van Bittner of S.WT.O.C. cry: "They say in Monroe they want to protect their homes. We don't want to destroy their homes. . . . But by God they'll pay for what they did at the Republic Steel Corp. We are going to make those hoodlums in Monroe just as decent as any other American citizens...
...years, during which time the property owner may redeem the certificate for the amount of the back taxes plus 25% interest for the first year, 8% thereafter. Since the certificate is a cloud on the title, most certificates are eventually redeemed. The buyers are usually mortgagees seeking to protect their position or professional buyers looking for a 25% return on a year's investment...
...Girdler. But hadn't the company laid in arms in anticipation of a strike? "I wouldn't say in anticipation of a strike and I would say it was some years ago. I never knew a steel plant that didn't have guns and ammunition to protect its property...
...They knocked me down again, turned me over on my side and began to kick me in the stomach. When I would protect my side they would kick my head. One of the attackers would say, 'That is enough let him go.' Then they would pick me up'and stand me on my feet, but I was no sooner on my feet than they would knock me down again. This went on about five times. They let me lie there for a while. . . . Every once in a while someone would grind his heel into me. They pulled...