Word: shopmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that, effective Jan. 1, 15,000 shopmen on the Southern Pacific accepted a voluntary pay cut of 10% for one year, with the understanding that no further reduction would be made irrespective of the outcome of the Chicago meeting. Simultaneously the Southern Pacific served notice of 15% reductions on its other organized employes. Many a line had already done likewise as a precaution against a deadlock at Chicago...
...sent Capone's brother Ralph to the penitentiary for three years for income tax evasion. A Harding appointee in 1922, Judge Wilkerson sprang immediately into national prominence less than two months after he mounted the bench by granting a sweeping injunction (framed by then Attorney General Daugherty) against railway shopmen in the great strike that year. Fingering the ribbon of his glasses with an air of abstraction, he heard Mr. Capone's young doctor and nurses testify that, down with pleurisy, he had been in grave condition during February and March 1929. Then Judge Wilkerson listened to other witnesses...