Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers. General Knudsen backed down on his earlier insistence that all G. M. bargaining must be by individual plants, offered to treat with the Union nationally on matters of "general corporate policy." But he would not do that unless U. A. W. should first withdraw its sit-downers, whom he denounced as lawless trespassers, from the Corporation's plants. With the strikers in possession, G. M. could not send strikebreakers into its plants or remove vital dies and machinery for use in other plants without provoking violence. Hugging this advantage, General Martin refused to call out his sit-downers...
...started only since about the turn of the year. Many of those strikes do not seem to have been called in any regular fashion by submitting the question to a secret ballot of Union members. In several plants a few employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true of the Fisher Body Company in Cleveland, the Fisher Body No. 1 and No. 2 at Flint, and several others. Consequently, no one knows how many of the employees...
...immediate problem is to bring the parties together in negotiation. This means working out a mutually acceptable basis for conference. The company is demanding that the "sit down" strikers evacuate its plants before it negotiates with the Union The Union demands guarantees that the plants will not be operated or that the machinery be moved elsewhere. The company is probably glad to see a delay in striking negotiations because it believes that the real-strikers among its employees are relatively few and that prolonging the shutdown will make the strike and the Union unpopular with most of the employees...
...Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen shot back a flat refusal, insisting that bargaining must be by individual plants. Furthermore, declared stocky, blunt-spoken Mr. Knudsen: "Sit- downs are strikes. Such strikers are clearly trespassers and violators of the law of the land. We cannot have bona fide collective bargaining with sit-down strikers in illegal possession of plants. Collective bargaining cannot be justified if one party, having seized the plant, holds a gun at the other party's head...
...pair smiled for newsphotographers, Miss Slye insisting, "I won't sit any closer. I don't like him well enough." They then strolled down the boardwalk to pledge loud co-operation in cocktails. Roared Miss Slye, 57, wagging a finger: "Clarence Cook Little, you're a big handsome numskull." Roared Dr. Little, 48: "You're not a geneticist, Maude Slye." Cancer Detector- Dr. Walter Schiller of the University of Vienna, offered a simple new way of determining whether or not a woman has cancer of the cervix...