Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Corp. Even before the Recovery Act was passed in June, Frick Coke started organizing a company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke tossed tear bombs, provoked a clash. That started the strike which spread until last week 15,000 soft coal miners were out in Pennsylvania. When United Mine officials volunteered to negotiate a strike settlement, U. S. Steel flatly refused to dicker...
...such cheating some N. R. A. advisers thought they could be penalized under the National Recovery Act. Declared General Johnson: "We'll administer this thing through the squawks. When I hear a squawk I'll decide then what action to take. We haven't had one protest...
...only by electing their own representatives "on the premises of the employer." In case of a deadlock with the management the head of the company was to render "a final decision that shall be just and fair." These labor provisions drew the A. F. of L.'s angry protest for, if approved, they would balk its unionization campaign at the outset. Last week Steel and Labor were preparing for a red-hot battle at hearings before the National Recovery Administration...
...Jewish people (I happen to be President of this section of Council of Jewish Women) seriously consider boycotting your magazines you probably would awaken to the realization that the Jews in this country are quite a factor and wield a wide influence. Am writing this as a friendly protest. Your future consideration of the subject will guide my actions. MRS. LOUIS SAKS Birmingham...
...protest against German antiSemitism, Henry Ludwig Mond, Baron Melchett, British chemical tycoon, half-Jewish member of the Church of England, embraced Judaism in a liberal London synagog...