Word: sitdown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rescue of St. Louis' ailing Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. (fans, small motors) in return for $24,000 a year, plus a stock-option deal. Emerson was deep in the red and battered by labor troubles, had barely managed to survive a bitter, 53-day sitdown strike in 1937. Taking over as president in unpromising 1938, Symington new-broomed away most of the old management, set about winning over his workers. William Sentner, Midwest boss of the United Electrical Workers, was an avowed Communist, but Symington got along fine with him. Symington wooed and won the workers with a union...
...Spanish police: "The sooner the better." Last week the trouble came, and Dictator Franco and his police were ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain...
Women & Tear Gas. In Lodz (pronounced Woodge), 75 miles southwest of Warsaw, the early shift of streetcar workers reported for work one 3 a.m. last week, but no cars left the barns. Instead, before the day was over, 6,000 men and women employees were on a sitdown strike, demanding that their 800-zlotys monthly pay (enough to buy one pair of shoes) be increased 50%. The militia fired tear gas and wielded clubs. A worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed...
...postal workers were threatened with being laid off this week, and there were grim predictions of an unholy traffic tangle, as 6,000,000 pieces of Saturday mail piled up in New York City post offices alone. Growled the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer: "Mr. Summerfield's sitdown strike has become unbecoming and disrespectful." Some political critics were unkind enough to recall the 1952 Republican platform, which indicated a return to twice-a-day home deliveries. The absence of the Saturday mailman was felt in every U.S. home-and no one knew better than the Congressmen that their constituents live...
...labor-dispute umpire system (in 1940), first to hitch wages to the cost-of-living index, first to link wage increases to productivity. Last year G.M. lost an average (nationwide) of only three minutes in labor troubles for each wage earner. Today's happier version of the sitdown in Flint occurs when local U.A.W. leaders, G.M. brass and civic bigwigs sit down at a luncheon meeting to plot the Community Chest campaign...