Word: sitdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delivering the majority report of the committee to draw up the bill, Brain-bridge Crist '39 and David W. Childs '39 will favor compulsory incorporation of labor unions, outlawing of sitdown strikes, and the granting of coercive powers to the National Labor Relations Board. Lawrence F. Ebb '39, will present the minority report...
...hear his valedictory sermon on Why I Am Not a Christian. Universalist Ledyard, 57, had held the Lansing pulpit since 1935, had espoused the cause of the Automobile Workers last spring,* had been the one Lansing preacher who accepted their invitation to preach in the Reo factory during their sitdown. Mr. Ledyard's congregation rebelled. Resigning as of last week, the young-looking minister made ready to become organization director of the Quarry Workers' International Union, with headquarters at Barre, Vt. For him this was not a new field. Universalist Ledyard, Michigan-born and a Spanish-American...
...manufacturers asked for the easing of Federal and State restrictions on the use of labor injunctions. They asked that the Byrnes Act be amended to ban interstate transportation of "strike-makers" as well as strike breakers. They asked that a long list of strikes be declared illegal, including sitdown strikes, general strikes, strikes for a closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied "by continuous and systematic acts of violence and intimidation," strikes in violation of contracts, strikes "to prevent the use of materials, equipment or services." Another N. A. M. thought...
...heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan. When he became bored with freelancing last January, the News rehired him at an ordinary reporter's salary to do general assignments, among them the Fisher Body sitdown in Detroit. But stories like that do not break every...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2--The University of Pittsburgh football squad erroneously reported as on "sitdown strike." Members of the Varsity squad decided Saturday night on way back from Durham, N.C., where Duke was defeated Saturday that they would vote down any proposition of post season game. When, on Monday morning, they were asked to vote, they decided against participation...