Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hold of a guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike staged at exercise time in the yard by convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies are criticized by the prison board. He wins a tentative endorsement of his method of selecting men for work...
...severely stoned on several occasions, the New York City police have given a demonstration of strike work which might well be studied by Chicago. One day last week 2,000 strikers & sympathizers sat down on streetcar tracks outside a Brooklyn police station, refused to budge. As soon as one sit-downer was removed, another took his place. Women fought, scratched, screamed. Policemen finally sent the sit-downers scrambling. At week's end 20 C. I. O. unions pledged $100,000 war chest to carry on against the "miniature Tom Girdlers of the shipbuilding industry...
...Branded by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee as "inexcusable" last week was a recent wildcat sit-down of 43 unionists in Allegheny Steel Co.'s Brackenridge. (Pa.) plant. Jealous of its record as a responsible party to labor contracts, S. W. O. C. promptly recommended that the company dock the wildcatters a week...
...Once during Detroit's sit-down epidemic last winter, Thelma Goldman went to a nearby beauty shop, found the two attending operators eager to join a union. Explaining that U. A. W. was for automobile workers, not beauticians, Miss Goldman obligingly telephoned the local A. F. of L. headquarters to send up an organizer. Quite willing, the A. F. of L. man only wanted to know one thing: who owned the beauty shop. Proudly the beauticians told Miss Goldman...
...Judges designated to sit outside their regular bailiwicks shall get $10 a day for subsistence (instead of $5 a day as at present...