Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...lonosphere Observatory of the University, after a four-year shutdown, has resumed its radio investigations of the little-understood deep blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth's atmosphere a hundred or so miles from the ground, and which enable long-distance wireless communication...
...pugnacious C. I. 0. American Newspaper Guild last week ended the longest strike in its history. Seven months ago the Scripps League Seattle Star hired A. F. of L. teamsters to supplant Guild office workers in its circulation department. That started the strike. After a four-day shutdown, the Star's, presses started up again, managed to get out a paper every day of the strike. Last week's armistice gave neither side the full fruits of victory. Reinstated were 45 editorial and advertising office Guildsmen. Nineteen circulation men, recently ordered reinstated by the National Labor Relations Board...
...TIME, Dec. 27). Last week another case originating on that dark and bloody ground was decided in East St. Louis, Ill. by Federal District Judge Fred L. Wham. In a damage suit brought against the Progressive Miners by United Electric Coal Co. for losses sustained from a three-year shutdown of its Red Ray mine, Judge Wham whammed down an award of $117,000. Seven Progressive locals and 66 union members were ordered...
...size up the dispute from his own standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result of a shutdown, makes, to my mind, the strongest argument for discipline and responsibility of unions, even if it has to be done...