Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot of San Francisco's Hyde Street stands the bleak, red North Beach warehouse of big California Packing Corp. Last October the company closed the warehouse, discharging 75 members of Harry Bridges' Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union. The company said it was a permanent shutdown, the warehousemen a lockout. Whatever it was the warehouse has been closed ever since...
...Entering its seventh week last week was a strike called by C. I. O'.'s Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers of America in the shipyards of the Port of New York, involving some 15,000 workers. After a shutdown the shipyards began to reopen, bringing almost daily picket line clashes between strikers, workers and police. Cited by the National Labor Relations Board, big Todd Shipyards Corp. had been hailed before a trial examiner, who cried in exasperation last week that the hearings had broken "all records" for perjury. Picketing injunctions had been flagrantly violated. Though severely stoned...
...basis, sale of 988,971 new shares at $3 a share. Marketed through a syndicate headed by F. S. Yantis & Co. of Chicago, these netted the company $2,690,000 last June. Thus Hupp acquired enough cash to start manufacturing. President Bradley immediately ended the 18- month shutdown by resuming production of old type cars for export...
Brulted about Harvard yesterday was the rumour that the University Press had served its purpose and would not be reopened next year. No reasons of any sort were forthcoming however for the reported shutdown...
Meantime across the continent in Hollywood a shutdown of the nation's major cinema studios remained all week in prospect as 6,000 painters, make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing...