Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Robinson admitted that he disapproved of the Sit-Down. considered it illegal. So did other Senators who sprang up to object that the amendment was badly phrased and unjustly applied to coal miners, to blame the Sit-Down on employers' anti-union tactics. But Senator Johnson roared: "We do a great disservice to this Nation when in this body, gentlemen debate the Sit-Down strike and say it is unlawful but-but-but, and then begin to give fanciful reasons for its existence...
...maybe of 1940, put their agony in unequivocating words. Declared he: "One of the reasons why we in the Senate find ourselves in trouble at the moment in connection with this problem is the fact that Governmental agencies dealing with labor relationships have been so completely silent respecting the Sit-Down strike. They are very vocal indeed respecting the obligations of the employer, but as silent as the tomb respecting obligations to law and order and the maintenance of civilized society. ... If this proposal goes to a vote on the floor of the Senate and is defeated, the inevitable interpretation...
...mystery about why Jimmy Byrnes had put his colleagues on a spot. Last week John Lewis' C.I.O. was just getting underway its big push into the weakly unionized South, its goal an organization of 1,250,000 textile workers. No factories are more vulnerable to the Sit-Down than the South's textile mills. Furthermore, by taking the lead in condemning the Sit-Down while Franklin Roosevelt preserved silence, the Senate would be doing the President a good turn -as Texas Jack Garner, stanch backer of the Byrnes proposal, was heard remarking to Majority Leader Robinson...
Senator Vandenberg cried that responsibility for a Federal stand on the Sit-Down extended "straight down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House." Senator Johnson asserted that the President could have stopped the Sit-Down epidemic with six words-"I will not tolerate Sit-Down strikes"-and recalled an old law which empowers the Government to step in when a State is unable to put down public disorder. Senator Borah, the Senate's greatest constitutional lawyer, reminded his fellows that the Government could do nothing until local officials announced themselves thwarted...
...Byrnes, having refused to withdraw his amendment in favor of a separate resolution when he heard that Senators Guffey and Neely were planning to amend such a resolution with condemnation of another species of mass lawbreaking: lynching. And of all those who had raised their voices in defense of sit-downers, not one had championed the Sit-Down as admirable or lawful...