Word: shoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action as a "form of banditry," and a swarm of 300 policemen raided and routed them. With public opinion swinging behind them at the revelation of these "professional sit-down strikers," the emboldened police moved on seven shoe stores and a food plant, smashed sit-downs in all of them...
...course of the whole 129 in either set would last 16 years. Two-year-olds have a new test, consisting mainly of a box of toy objects, such as an automobile and a shoe, which they can identify by pointing and gurgling. Older children point out the larger of two balls, detect verbal and pictorial absurdities. "Superior adults" restate proverbs in their own words, fill out blanks in sentences, find antonyms...
...United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (10,000 employes). In Manhattan, General Electric's New Dealing President Gerard Swope agreed to a conference with C.I.O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, commencing next week. In Boston, C.I.O. organizers announced formation of a new United Shoe Workers union, with 20,000 charter members. Abandoning his U.M.W. coal conference in Manhattan for a few days, Leader Lewis sped back to Washington to lay plans for major organizing drives in Textiles and Oil. Contemptuously he brushed aside newshawks' questions about the animadversions of William Green. Snapped...
John L., Lewis has swung on the textiles. Not content with tying up or bothering, to a greater or lesser degree, the coal industry, the steel industry, the automobile industry, the shoe industry, and a number of other industries. Mr. Lewis has now turned toward the 1,250,000 workers involved in the manufacture of woolen, cotton, rayon, jute, and other clothing goods. Eighting northern as well as southern manufacturers, John demands a minimum wage of eighteen dollars, four dollars higher than N.R.A., a maximum hour week of thirty-five hours, and recognition of the C.I.O...
...Brooklyn 110 workers in a shoe factory sat down on union orders. Among the strikers were two sons and a daughter of Morris Baidowsky, president of the company. The union, sensible of filial relationships, allowed them to leave the factory and go to the movies. At nightfall a committee of 26 sit-downers was selected to stay the night while others went home. The secretary & treasurer of the company, Herman Baidowsky, another son, came to spend the night, He promised that if they would not break anything they could have light all night, and he would see that they...