Word: sitdown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Automobile Manufacturers Association had answered: "The men who led the original sitdown strikes, who tolerated and encouraged not scores but hundreds of sitdowns, slowdowns and other forms of production sabotage, now propose that they are the capable ones to guide . . . production for war." The issue was clear: the union wanted power to help control production policies; to management, the idea of giving the union such power was anathema...
...last week to the Governor of Michigan: "I wish to inform you that no labor dispute exists between this company and its employes, despite attempts of certain groups of labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program...