Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME says: "Last trouble at Briggs was an epidemic of departmental sit-down strikes a month ago which resulted in wage increases...
When Mr. Hopkins got back to Washington he found the kickbacks had been swift and vigorous. In big centres of unemployment, notably Manhattan and Los Angeles, reliefers had instituted sit-down strikes. Some of the New Deal's strongest supporters were having fits. One of them, Publisher J. David Stern, editorialized in his New York Post...
...Conference of Mayors-had gone into action. Headed by Mayor LaGuardia of New York, who has among his constituents nearly 10% of the 2,500,000 people on the WPA payrolls and who forbade his police to obey the local WPAdministrator's request to oust sit-down strikers from WPA offices, a delegation of mayors had invaded Washington, demanded continuation of Relief at November levels, offered to lobby a new Relief appropriation through Congress as soon as it meets in January, sent an indignant wireless to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Ottawa, Ill., 1,300 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. continued a sit-down in protest against a $4,000,000 job transferred from the Pittsburgh company...
...mayor, a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs labor policies with results by no means complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike ended last summer after ten months of bickering between competing unions, but it failed. Last trouble at Briggs was an epidemic of departmental sit-down strikes a month ago which resulted in wage increases. Fortnight ago Briggs announced a year-end bonus of $1,000,000 for 26,000 employes...