Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made him a Federal judge in 1922, he issued a drastic injunction which broke the railway shop strike and earned him the undying enmity of Labor. Two years ago, President Hoover tried to appoint Judge Wilkerson to the Circuit Court of Appeals. Railway labor promptly sent a representative to protest to the Senate against confirmation of the nomination. The nomination was never confirmed. Labor's emissary was a young Chicago lawyer named Donald B. Richberg. Today Mr. Richberg is NRA's chief counsel...
...year two or three Houses received far more applications than they could handle, and when it developed that the Masters were unable to arrange an equitable distribution among themselves the Committee was created. Its raison deter is thus a lack of agreement between the Masters, many of whom now protest that they have not sufficient freedom of choice. Ideally, the Central Committee should be abolished, but since this is apparently impractical, human nature being what it is, the Committee's function should be merely that of a referee board. It should draw up a set of general rules...
...time the number of strikes which feature the newspaper headlines becomes increasingly numerous, Toledo being the latest storm center, where several thousand workers at the Electric Auto Lite Company have staged a walkout and picketed the factory. The Toledo strike, however, introduces a new note in the wave of protest by organized labor concerning wages, which has been sweeping the country with mounting force since the organization of N.R.A...
...heels of mob violence by the produce truckers' strike, in Minneapolis gives evidence that a new phase of the strike situation is rapidly coming into far among labor unions. Violence reminiscent of the Pullman and Steel strikes of the '90s, now bids fair to become the accepted method of protest among labor organizations. For the first time in many months the interventions. For the state militia has been requested by the local authorities, police being unable to cope with the situation. Yet whether or not the strikers are justified in their demands for higher pay cannot be accurately determined considering...
...peculiarly suitable method of getting Herr Hitler to do something. That supposedly intelligent students of two of the country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular sympathy, seems remarkable to us, when so many avenues of propaganda and organized protest are open to them and would have proved vastly more effective in gaining public sentiment for their cause...