Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fingers waved, but the Senate did finally agree to a truce. Labor legislation was shelved until April 20. First bill then: fire-breathing Texas Tom Connally's seize-freeze bill to freeze existing labor contracts, to provide for Government seizure of wartime plants if they had a labor ruckus...
...Repeated A.F. of L.'s command invitation to C.I.O. to return to the fold, blamed C.I.O. for the continued ruckus in labor's house...
...Leslie Oliver looked around for a formula by which unhappy machinists could back down without losing face, and a Senate Committee investigating the defense program threatened to call disputants to Washington, West Coast Communists slyly sprinkled salt in wounds, did what they could to prolong the ruckus. Still stranded on this labor shoal at week's end were a total $500,000,000 worth of Navy contracts (27 destroyers, four cruisers, 43 auxiliaries) and a Maritime Commission program of 74 freighters and three passenger-cargo ships...
...Tough, smiling President George Browne of the big American Federation of Labor stagehands' union, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes, has long wanted to be tsar of entertainment labor. Last year he tried hard, got a setback in a ruckus with the actors' unions (TIME, Sept. 11, 1939). Some 48 A. F. of L. unions are concerned in one way or another with show business, including those of the teamsters, upholsterers, costume workers, floor coverers, ornamental iron workers, bartenders. Last week 20 of them joined in a superunion: the Combined Theatrical Amusement Crafts. Its announced purpose...
...unusually reliable source, we do not hesitate to pass it on. When we heard of this, we intended to play ball with Haavahd, but because of "unfair scheduling tactics" we are forced to change our plans. Cornellians everywhere, upon learning Haavahd's motive in stirring up this latest ruckus, will undoubtedly be abashed by their hasty reaction to the Crimson charges. There is really nothing to this affair when one knows what lies behind those bitter words and they boil down to this--Haavahd will soon become a coeducational institution. Yes, when the doors of the University swing wide next...