Word: rival
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where C. I. O.'s temporary organizing committee under Sidney Hillman has just been turned into a permanent union with contracts covering some 400,000 of textiles' estimated 1,200,000 workers. A. F. of L. proposes to put organizers, money and life into a presently feeble rival, has yet to do much about it. Their big battleground: the South. > Automobile manufacturing, where, as in textiles, A. F. of L. owes its foothold to an anemic minority which recently deserted C. I. O. The Federation's Homer Martin slightly bettered his position last week. Instead of dealing...
...decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local union committees. Meantime, pending decision of the rival claims by the courts or the National Labor Relations Board, G. M. will not talk amendment (or, in effect, renewal) of its national contract with either union. G. M. was showing its muscle...
...shot in the leg. Two union men had been stabbed. Another was beaten, later hounded into a cellar whence police rescued him. Carloads of union men drove up to a union picketline, attacked the picketers with baseball bats. Other union rovers toured the city, on the lookout for rival union...
That twins make ideal doubles players was demonstrated last week when William and Chester Murphy, identical twins, wound up their tennis careers at the University of Chicago. Playing in the Big Ten ennis championships at Chicago, the solemn-faced Murphys outplayed the star doubles teams of eight rival colleges, won the doubles title without losing a set. In three years of varsity tennis (including three Big Ten championships), they had never lost a doubles match, had dropped only two sets...
JUDAS, INCORPORATED-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). While tracking down the murderer of a Connecticut industrialist, case-hardened Hank Hyer comes between two rival strikebreaking agencies. Tops for the tough type...