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...squared off at the U. S. also. Though Nazi propagandists have been remiss in neglecting the satiric possibilities of Father Divine (see p. 61), they found a ripe windfall in Mississippi's savage blowtorch lynchings of last fortnight (TIME, April 26). This was amplified by newsreel shots of Sit-Down strikes. And Schwarze Korps, organ of Hitler's special guards, was able to do its bit. It filled a front page with pictures of U. S. female wrestlers, headlined it: AMERICAN LADIES...
...sit-down technique is definitely a weapon in the CIO armory and a very effective instrument," was the instructor's comment on the new mode of striking. He felt that the question of the legality of the sit-down has not yet been determined, mentioning its defense in an article in the "New Republic" by the dean of the Northwestern Law School...
...every U. S. labor union worth its salt has had locals in Canada, thereby justifying a resounding "international" in its title. For months there have been some 20,000 Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make...
...next day the Hudson Motors strike, both on the basis of the Chrysler terms. Once more quasi-peace reigned in the motor industry. But in General Motors plants, where peace was made two months ago, a sort of guerrilla labor war went on in the form of brief, "spontaneous" sit-downs. The workers' willingness to strike at the drop of a hat was best illustrated at the Oldsmobile plant. There one afternoon the day shift finished work ten minutes early. Members of the night shift found them idle, and practical jokers announced they had "sat down." Result: a real...
Meantime in Texas, President Harvey C. Fremming of C. I. O.'s Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers was less concerned with prospective A. F. of L. competition than with his testy reception by hot-tempered Texans. Loosing a warning blast against the Sit-Down last fortnight, young Governor "Jimmy" Allred barked: "We are not going to permit the transfer of disgraceful episodes in other States to Texas. In other words, we are not going to play 'Michigan.' " President Fremming, a bulky onetime University of Washington footballer who knows that a Sit-Down in an oil field...