Word: settlements
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ethnological history of Puerto Rico is identical with that of any of our Southern States, including my own State of Texas: invasion and settlement by Europeans?and Spain sent her best blood to the New World; practical extermination of the aboriginal inhabitants; importation of African slaves for agricultural labor; subsequent liberation of these slaves and the gradual appearance of more or less mixed blood. The only difference I see in Puerto Rico is that, since the process has on the whole been going on for a couple of hundred years more than in the continental U. S., the proportion...
...strike developed because of labor dissatisfaction with the terms of an arbitration award made by Judge Sullivan in settlement of a similar strike last November. For 36 hours General Johnson sweated with the disputants, got the Union Stock Yards & Transit Co. to promise a minimum of 48 hours work to its regular handlers during every week that 4,000 carloads of livestock were received. All other questions in dispute were again left to Judge Sullivan's decision. Despite his interrupted golf game, the Judge listened to General Johnson's plea, agreed to act again...
Wails and smiles greeted his order. For days the Governor had been trying to manage an unmanageable situation. Last May Minneapolis' first truck strike was "successfully" settled by a compromise. It broke out again when the union accused the truck owners of "chiseling" on the settlement, demanded the right to represent not only drivers and helpers but "inside workers" as well...
...rendered a decision: A 10% to 25% wage increase retroactive for 13 weeks, a 40-hour work week and the stipulation that those terms were to be binding on both parties until June 1935. Six weeks after the decision the union declared that the company was not fulfilling the settlement terms, made additional new demands, threatening a strike if they were not granted in 48 hours. The company offered to go before Judge Sullivan and abide by his decision if it had not lived up to its contract, but refused to listen to new demands...
...publishers' campaign against the general strike, arouse public opinion. Editorials harped on the idea that Communists were to blame for the city's plight, that radicals were directing the strike, that Labor must purge itself of such Red leadership before there could be any arbitration or settlement. The publishers got little or no support from Washington for their tubthumping. When General Johnson arrived in San Francisco, he was taken in hand by Mr. Neylan and made to see the Red menace...