Word: rickert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With this little fight talk Franklin Roosevelt last week warmed up A. F. of L.'s and C. I. O.'s peace negotiators. The six-A. F. of L.'s Harry Bates, Matthew Woll, Tom Rickert; C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman - and Madam Secretary Perkins listened respectfully. But Franklin Roosevelt as he addressed them at the White House before the beginning of their labors must have been pretty certain that most of them had their fingers crossed...
...change of tone was immediately apparent. A. F. of L.'s Woll, Bates & Rickert consented to debate John Lewis' idea along with "any other suggestions." Because Miners Lewis and Murray had to attend U. M. W.'s annual contract negotiations, the peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences...
...President tossed Mr. Lewis' paper aside, declared an hour later that he did not know its contents. Fanny Perkins and Messrs. Woll, Bates & Rickert, hurriedly scanning it, did not hide their feeling that John Lewis had pulled a fast one on them and on Franklin Roosevelt. When they emerged a reporter queried Mr. Lewis: "I see you've taken care of Bill Green. How about yourself...
Historic hates in Labor are Matthew Woll's for John L. Lewis, Thomas A. Rickert's for Sidney Hillman. Tiny Mr. Woll (5 ft. 2 in.) thinks he would be president of A. F. of L. today instead of its third and smallest vice president if John Lewis had played ball in 1924 (when Founder Sam Gompers died). Tom Rickert thinks he would be high man in the men's apparel industry if Sidney Hillman had not seceded in 1914 from Mr. Rickert's United Garment Workers and eclipsed it with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
Neatest irony of last week was the appointment of these ancient enemies as negotiators to make peace between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. William Green named Messrs. Woll, Rickert and Bricklayer Harry Bates to the committee which at Franklin Roosevelt's behest will seek "peace with honor" with C. I. 0. (TIME, March 6). John Lewis matched them with a C. I. 0. committee consisting of himself, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray (steel...