Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stout employes had organized a union, and demanded higher wages. This demand was granted. Then the unionized majority demanded that only union members be employed, that no union member be discharged except for cause regardless of whether his services were needed. These demands the Stouts refused. After a shutdown, they reopened their mill, offered to rehire all onetime employes individually. The Labor Board's complaint cited the three Stouts for refusing to bow to the unionized majority in the mill, threatened them with a $5,000 fine, a year in jail, or both, for violations of the Labor...
...Last week after again threatening a general automobile shutdown by a strike in Toledo's Chevrolet transmissions plant-a strike which forced the closing of 16 other General Motors plants-A. F. of L. again made peace without gaining its major point, a written contract with General Motors. *The argument: Depressions interfere with interstate commerce; depressions occur and are aggravated because workers have not enough purchasing power; workers lack purchasing power because they have not enough bargaining power to get high wages: the Wagner Hill will give it to them. Also: Strikes interfere with interstate commerce: some strikes result...
...boycott has not discriminated between pictures. ... A shutdown would entail unemployment for several thousand people. . . . We have offered Cardinal Dougherty the use of a suitable projection room where pictures may be viewed before release. This preview would enable him to prepare a black and white list which could serve as further protection for his flock...
...agreed to return to work tomorrow morning, thus ending a strike which today caused a shutdown at the Hudson Motor Company
...immediate accomplishments of this new thing as it affected the automobile industry were indisputable: 1 ) It saved Detroit from being confronted with 200,000 new unemployed. 2) It saved automobile makers from a shutdown at the peak of their most promising production season in four years. 3 ) It saved 250,000 workmen in automobile plants from losing over $1,000,000 a day in wages. 4) It saved the Roosevelt Administration from a terrific setback to its Recovery plans...