Word: sit-down
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...Ford, the Communist "party line" is against a Ford showdown, feeling that at this time it would be disastrous. On the other hand the Mortimer group believes that in negotiating a new contract with General Motors it would be very helpful to have a series of short, controlled, harassing sit-downs and "quickies." And in the recent Fisher Body outlaw Sit-down (TIME, Nov. 29), the followers of the "party line" fought desperately, if futilely, to have the strike legitimatized by the union...
...Fisher Body plant in Atlanta. Last week, appropriately if unconsciously, a group of rebel United Automobile Workers celebrated that Sit-Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down to something like old times with the Sit-Downers holding a week-end dance in the plant cafeteria...
...Another Sit-Down in the rubber industry last week, protesting layoffs in three Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Akron, ended abruptly when Ohio's quick-triggered Governor Davey threatened to mobilize his militia...
...American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers' appeal from a Circuit Court of Appeals injunction which ended an Apex Hosiery workers' sit-down strike in Philadelphia last June (TIME, July 5). If the lower court decision is upheld, sit-down strikes in industries in interstate commerce can hereafter be stopped by injunctions...
Other instruments included a saxophone whose tooter was staging a sit-down strike most of the afternoon, a jazz whistle, and other unidentified instruments...