Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article entitled 'Peace over Toledo" you outline the settlement made in the Auto-Lite strike [TIME, June 11]. So that your information may be accurate we are pleased to enclose copy of the agreement...
...officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers to be represented by whichever union they belong to, whether A. F. of L. or the Auto-Lite Council Body (socalled company union). 3) TIME said of the Toledo Edison Co. settlement: "The union was recognized." Fact: The company formally recognized the union more than ten years ago, was completely willing to negotiate with union officials, whether employed by the company or not. 4) TIME said: "Union members were given preference for employment." Fact: Mediator Charles P. Taft II overruled this request...
...careful study and to undertake any negotiations that seem advisable. The Secretary is fully empowered to represent me in taking whatever action seems advisable under the circumstances. . . ." Then Mr. Roosevelt departed gaily for the crew races at New London. When appealed to there by Governor Merriam of California for settlement of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, June 25), he promptly wired back that Miss Perkins was in charge. She was. She had already telegraphed San Francisco a proposal to mediate the only issue still in dispute. Meantime she had also telephoned to the heads of the Iron...
...develop during the summer and autumn. Therefore the President had drafted a substitute measure, general enough to get through Congress quickly, specific enough to be of some real value. The substitute took the form of an amendment to the Recovery Act and by no coincidence closely paralleled the Green settlement in Pittsburgh. The President was authorized to appoint labor
...name was for the cabin's owner. Jean Thomas, a small, sprightly blonde who was there dressed in a billowy Elizabethan costume. Mountaineers called her ''the traipsin' woman" because as a court reporter she followed the Law from one hilly settlement to another. Eventually her chief interest became folksongs and ballads, particularly those which could be traced back directly to the folk music...