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...three and a half years he ran the show, spent $10,000,000 a month (his salary as lieutenant colonel: $6,900 a year). There were rows with the Communist Party and with private industry, which saw the engineer beating them out of fat jobs. There was a sit-down strike (which he beat by locking the privies). But in the end even the Workers' Alliance admitted that the job had been a great show of efficiency ("but so was the building of the Pyramids") and Somervell had left plenty of monuments. The biggest: LaGuardia Field...
...armies of non-violent non-cooperators might be a considerable obstacle. Gandhi's policy is anything but pacifism. It is organized mass resistance whose nearest U.S. equivalent is the sit-down strike. Gandhi's followers would obstruct Japan by refusing the invader their labor; they would not work in factories, run trains, operate telephones or telegraphs, draw water or grow crops for Japan. If Japan killed them for their resistance, it would not help Japan. And followers of Gandhi have sometimes proved their willingness to die-in front of streetcars or police, or in hunger strikes-for their...
Fully as fierce were Socialist Blum's answers to charges that he sold out France to sit-down strikers and Communist intriguers. He had dealt with Communists, he said, because it was "impossible to defend republican ideals by excluding a large mass of the people." With a daring that made the courtroom gasp, he spoke of a Communist, recently a saboteur, "who often bitterly attacked...
Piping mad, the dealers pulled what looked like a sit-down strike, refused to cooperate in selling the issue. Aside from losing $112,500 in commissions, their very careers were at stake. If Louisville G. & E. successfully distributes the issue with its amateur salesmen, many another utility will copy the idea. And new utility issues -the result of SEC's holding-company dissolutions-have been the biggest piece of prospective business on the security dealers' horizon...
...Catholic Syndicate of Aluminum Workers on requested wage increases, 300 huskies quit work and set up a shout for "a dollar an hour." They tossed out protesting "front-office" workers, told company police to go chase themselves. In violation of Canada's labor-conciliation law they staged a sit-down in the pot room, thereby capturing a plant surrounded by anti-aircraft batteries, as carefully guarded against outside attack as any in North America...