Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bridges credo calling for unity not only among waterfront workers but all workers in the surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges, he is a life-long unionist who was catapulted to power in the 1934 strike but in the Sailors...
...final pledge was not to discriminate between strikers and non-strikers when the march back-to-work began. C.I.O.'s regional director, Van A. Bittner, telephoned the East Chicago pickets: "For God's sake don't let anything interfere! We've obtained a very fine settlement." The grim picket line became a victory parade and 12,000 men returned to their jobs...
...tried mediation, but for three weeks the steel towns of the Mahoning Valley were armed camps, with steel mills under siege and casual fracases occurring at frequent intervals. In short, when serious labor trouble was batted out to them, each in turn had muffed the chance to achieve a settlement without civil commotion...
...refused to sign anything because, they said, a contract would be followed by demands for the closed shop and the check-off of union dues. To the unions this was just a quibble. Pickets in Cleveland last week carried placards chiding the companies for refusing to buy ink. Settlement of this unsettled question may affect many a future labor crisis...
Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...