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...sued, that's news. When a labor union pays damages, that's big news. It was big news last week when Branch I of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers agreed to cough up $110,000 for damage its members had done four years ago during a sit-down strike at the Apex Hosiery Co. plant in Philadelphia. The company had filed and won a suit for triple damages against the union, had been reversed by the Supreme Court. Last year a new suit was instituted to collect $1,171,957 from the union, and about the same...
Handsome, hard-hitting, outspoken James S. Knowlson, president of R.M.A., president of Stewart-Warner Corp., is one of the more foresighted radio makers. No sit-down capitalist, Knowlson was one of the first big manufacturers to go after defense business. A year ago he was telling skeptical Chicago cronies that business-as-usual was on the skids. At the convention last week, he was in fighting trim. First he warned his fellow manufacturers: "Whether it is one month or six months ... we are all going to find ourselves in the place where we are unable to get the last component...
...emaciated wife of a brutal husband, and Ma Perkins was the community nurse rushing to the rescue. She salved labor's hurts. She squashed her tricorn hat down on her head and shook her finger at big, bullying business. She tried to settle the General Motors sit-down strike in 1937 with Biblical injunctions. When she failed to get an agreement, she flew into womanly fury...
...pictures, knew the bill would pass without substantial amendment. Yet they hammered nightly on the radio, appealing to U. S. mothers to write their Congressmen, protesting against the bill. Some mothers did. The group known as the "Mothers' Crusade Against Bill 1776" did more: they staged a sit-down strike in the Senate Office Building corridors before the door of bantam, spitfire Carter Glass of Virginia, who is ready to declare war on Hitler any time. The Mothers' leader, Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Dilling (author of The Red Network), mother of two, called Tartar Carter, father of four...
...second incident occurred a little later when four Harvard students spent a day and a night in an igloo in Leverett House courtyard in an effort to "stage a sit-down strike until Russia withdraws from the Karelian Isthmus or the snow melts...