Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitch") Hepburn continued roaring belligerently that he would never let the "paid foreign agitators" of C.I.O. get a foothold in Canada (TIME, April 19), G. M. and U.A.W. officials met in Detroit, agreed to let their Canadian affiliates get together with the Premier and work out a strictly Canadian settlement. That seemed to save face all around, since "Mitch" Hepburn and G. M. of Canada could claim that they were spurning C.I.O. and U.A.W.'s "international" officers, while Oshawa's U.A.W. local would remain just as firmly affiliated with the Union and C.I.O. as ever. But hardly...
...strike in the U. S. Over the week-end things were tense, but this week President Martin went to Washington to consult with his C.I.O. elders, and talk of a U. S. strike abruptly died down. In Oshawa, however, the strikers by unanimous vote turned down the first settlement terms arrived at by their own leaders in conference with the company...
...Chase National Bank, offered $2,000,000 to settle stockholders' actions brought after Bankster Wiggin's embarrassing session with Ferdinand Pecora and the Senate Banking & Currency Committee in 1933. In his offer Mr. Wiggin revealed that he had already paid out more than $1,000,000 in settlement of similar suits...
Lewis Cautions. With this temper among men, it was natural that many should grumble that the Chrysler settlement was a defeat for labor. It was a defeat, however, not so much for Leader Lewis as for an ill-advised strike spirit in the plants which had forced his hand. Night after the settlement he addressed a crowd of 25,000 unionists jamming Detroit's State Fair Coliseum and made it plain that it was time for hotheads to give up blundering into strikes for which their responsible leaders were not ready. First, however, his aides warmed up the crowd...
Still living in the small settlement of Forest City during George and Alfred Tucker's boyhood were some of its first settlers-dramatic living links to the earliest beginnings of a "beautiful, somber" country. With few playmates, George and Alfred depended mostly on each other and their imaginations, but in their eyes they lived in a world twice as exciting as any city kid's. In the best descriptions that have been written of the Northwest's giant forests and mountain scenery Author Binns makes convincing their swelling pride in the beauty of a land where high...