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President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 joined seven business men in a telegram yesterday to Vice-President John N. Garner urging that sit-down strikes be declared illegal by Congress. He demanded that Congress enact and enforce legislation preventing the new labor weapon...
...Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. went to Manhattan last week to see an educational film. From both companies the United Electrical & Rad101 Workers' Union is about to demand concessions. The film was taken by strikers inside the Exide Battery plant in Philadelphia during a six-week sit-down early this year. It showed strikers preparing food, barbering each other, giving musical entertainments, sweeping and cleaning, doing setting-up exercises. Purpose of the showing was to teach prospective strikers the most up-to-date and improved sit-down technique...
...really up-to-date sit-down technique the incipient strikers should have been shipped last week to Detroit to the plants of Motormaker Walter P. Chrysler...
...soon as the sit-down began the "improved sit-down technique" became evident. Strikers escorted non-union workers to the gates and firmly put them out. Company guards were ousted from the premises. At the end of the first day the greater part of the strikers were sent home so as to simplify the feeding problem. About 7,500 men remained in the shops, the greatest number, 2,400, in the big Dodge plant which ordinarily employs 25,000. Meantime negotiations had been going on in the executive offices at the Highland Park plant. Day after the sit-down began...
...retaliation for the company's petition for an injunction, the union then carried its sit-down technique one step further, took full possession of the offices, refused to let officials enter at all and prevented the delivery or dispatch of company mail. Only thing the strikers did not seize was the company's officials themselves. These announced that they would attend to as terms." At least 500,000 Britons should now be rushed out as new farmers onto the Kingdom's land as a rearmament measure, according to Mr. Lloyd George last week, but Mr. Chamberlain...