Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed the state of her health and her mental suffering. Eugene D. Flaherty, a family friend, told about her husband's long absences away from the McAdoo yellow stucco house, overlooking the Pacific at Santa Barbara. A private property settlement supposedly giving her real estate and $6,000 a year was approved by the court. By 4:30 p. m. the McAdoo marriage had been legally and finally dissolved and Mrs. McAdoo again became Eleanor Randolph Wilson...
...pickets were wounded, most of them in the arms and legs. One died next day. Overtures for a general strike were made but other unions promised no more than moral support. Meantime a two-day truce was declared, to give Rev. Francis Haas, Federal mediator, time to arrange a settlement. Governor Floyd B. Olson moved 4,000 guardsmen to the State Fair Grounds. When the truce expired no settlement had been reached and police again began convoying food trucks...
...engineers, superintendents and non-union men engaged in manning the pumps which keep three mines at Butte from being flooded. The strike, for a 30-hour week and a pay increase from 60? to $1.25 an hour, has been in progress since May 8, and all negotiations for its settlement have failed...
...into the fray with demands of their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their allies. Their determination to win unconditional victory upon all fronts blocked all subsequent attempts at settlement. It led President Ryan to join...
...There are three elements which are preventing the settlement of the strike. One is that the Communist Party, led by Harry Bridges, is in control of the San Francisco situation. Secondly, our longshoremen . . . have had foisted on their shoulders a group of other marine craft, who did not have nerve enough to go on strike wIth the longshoremen. The third reason is that the employers have delegated their case to a small committee . . . dominated by the Industrial Association of San Francisco...