Word: renews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. President Philip Murray, who has no love for fellow-traveling Harry Bridges. But Murray sent Alan Haywood, national director of C.I.O. organizing, and R. J. Thomas, ex-boss of the autoworkers, to San Francisco. Their job was to intercede as agents of the C.I.O., get the owners to renew their offer. This week the Bridges nose was still in the wringer. Haywood returned to Washington, declaring: "The employers are adamant. They will not deal with Harry Bridges...
...over-all issue above and beyond objections to the individual referenda remains the fact that no industrial state has passed such bills. Passage of any of the referenda in Massachusetts would provide incentive to enemies of unions and collective bargaining all over the nation to renew their efforts to destroy by legislation these valuable democratic institutions . . . . Roy Gootenberg '49 Executive Committee, Harvard Liberal Union
Opposition to Heller also filtered to the State Department, which at first refused to renew Heller's passport. He was finally allowed to leave the U.S. this year, but couldn't get into Austria...
...Manufacturing Co., one of the biggest U.S. small-arms manufacturers, drew a bead on C.I.O.'s United Electrical, Radio & Machinery Workers of America. Colt charged that the union's record "of obstructing national policies" might endanger the company's fulfillment of armament orders, and refused to renew its contract. Under the Taft-Hartley law, the union could not bring charges of unfair labor practices before the National Labor Relations Board; its officers had refused to swear they were not Communists...
...masons walked out April 1 after negotiations to renew their freshly-expired contract had failed to reach a wage figure acceptable to both the union and the contractors. The bricklayers are asking a 35 cent an hour raise over the $2.15 amount they received under the old contract. The Fuller Contracting Company has countered by proffering a 20 cent hourly increase...