Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once a confession of past sins and a command to the membership to sin no more by sit-downs, slowdowns, stay-ins, rash walkouts. It was also a promise that motor-makers with unionized plants can finish their booming 1940 season without a repetition of the rash, costly Chrysler shutdown (TIME, Dec. 4). Excerpts...
...union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns] ... it is the duty of the local union to support the temporary placing of workers on the job to avoid a general shutdown...
...President Kaufman Thuma Keller, gravely and truly: "The settlement should have been made without the loss of a single day's pay on the part of our employes, or the loss of a single automobile sale on the part of our dealers." Then why this costly shutdown? No strike, no lockout, it was a cessation of work which followed when the contract between Chrysler and its C. I. O.-unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides haggled over terms...
...Berlin radio station, which usually starts broadcasting at 6 a. m., would not be on the air until 12:30 that day. No reason was given, and under Nazi rule the people have learned not to ask or reason why, but the six-and-a-half-hour official radio shutdown-presumably for repairs-was seized upon by Germany's Freedom Station, a portable radio transmitter run by daring anti-Nazis who at the risk of their lives keep one jump ahead of the Gestapo or secret police. With supreme audacity the Freedom Station opened up in the early morning...
...first time in Bethlehem's history. Steel's (mostly Big Steel's) last reserve of obsolescent capacity in Chicago and Pittsburgh waited to limp into action. When these furnaces are blown in to work once every five or ten years, steelmen prepare for overproduction and shutdown...