Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Sloan's reason-the "unlawful seizure" of G. M. plants by sit-down strikers-Madam Perkins brushed aside as "legalistic." "The real reason the workers would not take their men out of the plants," asserted she, "was that they felt they couldn't trust General Motors. An episode like this must explain to the American people and make it clear why the workers can't trust General Motors...
Knudsen promised that G. M. would keep up payments on the group insurance policies of both non-strikers and strikers. Still grimly determined to evict sit-downers, however, G. M. renewed the court proceedings which it allowed to lapse when the Flint judge who had granted it an injunction was revealed to be the owner of $219,900 worth of G. M. stock (TIME...
...Governor Murphy, 1,200 troops of the Michigan National Guard moved into the zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away a union sound truck, had four agitators jailed. Since the troops allowed no one into the zone without a military pass the sit-downers' food-supply was cut off. They patronized candy and peanut slot machines inside the plants, yawped hungrily from the windows. Cigarettes were at a premium. As every National Guard unit in Michigan was ordered mobilized for possible duty, John L. Lewis sped to the scene from Washington...
...raised a storm. It announced that it was going to cut WPA expenditures to $152,000.000 a month, try to cut 150,000 reliefers off the rolls, make local governments pay a larger share of WPA costs. The U. S. Conference of Mayors went into a dither, reliefers staged sit-down strikes, and Harry Hopkins had quickly to back water, announcing, "No one who needs Relief will be dropped" (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week when the House received the Deficiency Bill appropriating Relief funds for the next five months, it transpired that Mr. Hopkins planned on cuts which made those...
...Rose, 6), should automatically become the Regent. This would mean that the death of King George would make his brother the Duke of Gloucester the sole Regent. This was a great surprise, for it had been expected that strong-minded Queen Elizabeth and strong-minded Queen Mother Mary would sit with the Duke of Gloucester and possibly also the Duke of Kent as a Regency Council...