Word: sit-down
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...that issue a whole division of Democratic Senators were kicking in the traces: Connally of Texas, Clark of Missouri, Bailey of North Carolina, Van Nuys of Indiana, not to mention old revolters such as Glass. Burke and Wheeler. And finally, on the other great issue of the day, the Sit-Down, they were irritated by his bland refusal to take any stand whatever. The President's great & good friend James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was responsible for the revolt in the Senate against his inaction, and not a Democratic Senator voted against his anti-Sit-Down resolution last...
...Having previously killed an anti-Sit-Down rider on the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill (TIME, April 12), passed (75 to 3) a resolution that began by declaring the Sit-Down "illegal and contrary to sound public policy" and continued with three times as many words condemning employers who use industrial spies, deny collective bargaining, foster company unions, engage in any other unfair labor practices as defined in the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Sent it to the House...
...failure to effect any settlement of the General Motors strike, makes it eminently clear that it will not tolerate the rights of a majority of the workers to be trampled upon, or until Congress repeals those provisions of the Act, it seems clear that the reign of sit-down strikes and general, unhealthy labor unrest will continue unchecked...
...York, hired a room for a single day near the Gedeon apartment and disappeared the night of the murders, the police settled on him as the murderer and began a nation-wide search. Thus this perfect story, playing a lurid obbligato to the Supreme Court and the Sit-Down in Manhattan's lively press, flamed on into another week of joy for the city editors...
...Harvey Firestone, the rest from Goodyear, Goodrich, U. S. Rubber. Henry Ford has made no secret of his alarm over Akron's labor troubles and the possibility of being cut off from his tire source-an alarm which was certainly not stilled by his first encounter with the Sit-Down last week (see p. 20). When his own tire plant gets into production, presumably next autumn, he will be able to supply an estimated half of his total needs...