Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators 6 Shadows, Uprising in the Senate for one of the briefest speeches of his loquacious career, California's venerable Hiram Johnson cried: ''The most ominous thing in our national economic life today is the Sit-Down strike. It is bad for the Government and in the long run it is worse for Labor. If the Sit-Down strike is carried on with the connivance or the sympathy of the public authorities, then warning signals are out, and down that road lurks DICTATORSHIP...
Appointment of a parson and a rabbi to help Rev. Frederic Siedenberg. executive dean of the Jesuit University of Detroit, mediate Detroit's pandemonium of sit-down strikes was not the only thing which reminded observers of the medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last...
...TIME, March 22), visited Secretary of Labor Perkins in Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor old and new sit-downs and walkouts continued to splash up and vanish in a constant boil...
...were darkened and service on three interurban lines halted when the Indiana Railroad's shop men and powerhouse walked out. Dead locked with C.I.O. over a demand for more pay, managers of twelve of the big gest downtown department and 5? & 10? stores in Providence moved to forestall sit-downs by suddenly shutting up shop at the height of Saturday and pre-Easter buying, locking out their 5,000 employes...
...C.I.O. call for a general strike of all ex cept food and drug stores closed a total of 95 of the city's 1,400 stores. A gen eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store...