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Among the amendments voted by the house were provisions prohibiting coercion of non-striking workers by strikers, and outlawing the sit-down strike as a labor weapon. Another measure adopted granted employers to "petition the NLRB for an election to determine the collective bargaining unit in his plant...
...response to a question asking his opinion of the soundness of Solicitor General Robert Jackson's recent condemnation of a "sit-down strike of business against the government." Governor Earle said. "I won't comment on the rest of the speech, but talk of a business strike is damned rot. Business is not organized to go on strike...
...Farouk took to the streets to fight it out with adherents of Premier Nahas and the Wafdists. At week's end both combatants were stubbornly holding out on a decision as 11,000 pro-Farouk students at El-Azhar university, chief Moslem theological school, went on a mass sit-down strike to back up the young monarch...
Secondary picketing is no new labor weapon like the Sit-Down but its legality is by no means generally conceded. A few States forbid picketing in any form, some that allow direct picketing forbid secondary, many have no picketing statutes at all. Generally conceded, however, is the illegality of the "secondary boycott" which applies indiscriminate pressure on a third and disinterested party. In its decision last week the New York State Court of Appeals drew the line between seconds rv picketing and secondary boycott by order-ing the Butchers' Union to confine its pressure to the non-union products...
Meanwhile at the cemetery, where a hard rain was falling, laborers abandoned a plan to stage a sit-down and took themselves off. Soon another body arrived. It lay in an open grave all night. Next day came six more. As more funeral processions, unaware of the strike, continued to arrive at the cemetery. New York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia saw an emergency...