Word: sit-down
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...warned Labor's foes: "Let no one any longer take the law in his own hands, through self-appointed interpreters of what the Constitution means, through hired police or spies. . . ." Had such an act as his been the law long ago, he opined, there would have been no Sit-Down...
...signed a union agreement. But when the summer slack in the chocolate business began to set in last fortnight, the union charged that the company was violating its agreement to respect seniority, discriminating against unionists in layoffs. One day about half the workers stopped the factory with a Sit-Down. When negotiations began next day, they walked out. When negotiations broke off last week, some 600 of them went back to resume sitting...
...that the great General Motors sit-down had cost the "national economy" hundreds of millions of dollars, the average citizen shrugged and went on about his business. But the Hershey Sit-Downers were sitting squarely on the pocketbooks of neighboring farmers who sell the chocolate company some $14,000 worth of milk per day. Stung to action, the deprived dairymen last week made a milestone in the history of the Sit-Down...
...While Sit-Down critics throughout the land observed with ill-concealed satisfaction that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, Pennsylvania's New Dealing Governor Earle started an investigation, cried: "The bloodshed at the Hershey plant was a disgrace to the Commonwealth. The blame lies directly on the sheriff of the county. . . . The State police will not be used to suppress union labor...
...purpose of undermining the union. These things, however, were not in controversy. All that the union gained was that these things were put in writing. The union on its part promised not to coerce employes to join, not to permit its members to take part in "any sit-down or stayin strike or other stoppage" in any Chrysler plant for the period of the agreement (one year). Lesser matters were left to further negotiation...