Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Next day the Chrysler officials were passed through the picket lines to continue negotiations but they were not satisfied with this arrangement. They applied to Judge Allan Campbell for an injunction against the sit-downers, charging 70 union leaders, from John L. Lewis down to "John Doe, Richard Roe and Mary Roe," with conspiracy to seize company property. Specifically, B. Edwin Hutchinson, chairman of Chrysler's Finance Committee, declared that the passes given to his office force to enter the offices were unsatisfactory, that automobiles of executives were searched by pickets, that company badges of non-union employes...
...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...
...doing is to attempt a series of risky experiments, however noble. Upon that record, could Finance Minister Auriol succeed in floating 104 billions in bonds? From the box of absent Speaker Edouard Herriot, who was abed with bronchitis, the Premier's charming wife, vivacious Mme Blum, decided to sit through the final Chamber debate on whether to issue the bonds. Just behind her sat the wife of Conservative Deputy Paul Bietrix, and the speech Premier Blum was making gradually amused Mme Bietrix more & more, until finally she greeted its close with a derisive shriek of laughter. Snapped Mme Blum...