Word: sit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional Sit-Downers. Visiting a sit-down at Frank & Seder's department store one night, Governor Murphy recognized one of the sitters as a "man whom, when the Governor was judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court, he had sentenced to prison for forgery. Investigation disclosed that the ex-convict and ten of his companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action...
That the harassed Governor well realized he was becoming the Kerensky of the Sit-Down appeared when, to a 20-man Committee on Law & Order which he had summoned to consider Michigan's labor troubles, he declared: "When the authority of governmental agencies is continually flouted or defied, confidence in government is impaired, and outraged citizens prepare to take the law into their own hands; democratic rule is endangered, and the way is prepared for the rule of mobs or dictators; worst of all, labor movements and organizations are discredited, faith in liberal democratic government is permanently impaired...
...While I have consistently counseled resort to conference and negotiation, and sought to avoid the use of force, there is obviously a limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket...
...both sides to submit to arbitration. But uppity bellboys were the least of the earnest Governor's troubles last week. Nullifying the courts, Governor Murphy had averted bloodshed in the General Motors strike, helped bring a peaceful settlement, made himself a national hero. But he had also taught sit-downers that they could safely defy the law, and last week they were showing that they had learned their lesson well...
...Justice- In the pinko New Republic last week Dean Leon Green of Northwestern University Law School stepped forward as the first impartial and distinguished legalist to champion the Sit-Down's legality...