Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trenton, muscular Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who had sworn to resist the Sit-Down with "the full resources of the State," leaped to the rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
Akron rubber workers began staging sit-downs in 1934, when John L. Lewis was only the hard-boiled boss of the hard-boiled Miners' Union. Akron was then known as the toughest anti-union town in the U. S. outside of Detroit. United Rubber Workers of America, later to join C. I. O., moved in in 1935. By the time this year's Sit-Down epidemic struck, both Akron's workers and Akron's businessmen were past the primary grades, thoroughly accustomed to the idea and practice of unionism. When Firestone Tire & Rubber...
Last week company and union came to terms, signing U. R. W.'s first contract with a major rubber concern. Firestone agreed to bargain with the union, to stop financing its company union. U. R. W. agreed not to "cause or tolerate" Sit-Downs and other strikes, not to coerce prospective members. Included in the contract (to run for one year) was provision for the first standard 36-hour week ever adopted in a major U. S. industry, with a promise that before layoffs are made hours will be cut to 24 per week for eight weeks...
...Longmont, Colo., planted in a rocker on her father-in-law's front lawn, Mrs. Genevieve Johnson, 26, went into the second week of her Sit-Down to force her estranged husband to pay the $6.70-per-week separate maintenance awarded her by a court...
After a consultation with his colleagues, amazingly Premier Hayashi indicated that he would sit tight no matter what Japan's voters thought. With the fighting forces, if not the voters, behind him, this sabre-rattler bellowed: "I hope the new members of the Diet will sacrifice personal interests and serve the higher interests of the nation, thus promoting constitutional politics and fulfilling the great task of assisting the Emperor during the present emergency period...