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...Favored C. I. O. over A. F. of L. 2. Appointed a former Socialist as her assistant. 3. Boasted the Administration would continue to "spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect." 4. Made no effort to stop sitdown strikes. 5. Refused to deport an alleged Communist Labor 'official...
...Philadelphia district court slapped a $700,000 sitdown damage fine against a branch...
...acquired the power to restrain trade. Anti-union employers got their great awakening only last April when Apex won its verdict for $711,000 in triple damages against Branch 1 of C. I. O.'s American Federation of Hosiery Workers (TIME, April 10). The Apex strike was a sitdown, which the U. S. Supreme Court has declared illegal. If suits like Tom Girdler's can extend the anti-trust laws to cover other strikes (which are legal in principle) Labor will have suffered a blow, all but undoing such pro-Labor legislation as the Wagner Act. Last week...
...published in the St. Louis Star-Times, by the records of the Western Union Telegraph Co., and by the testimony of press association and other reporters, that I attended the five consecutive sessions of the committee from October 17 to 21, inclusive, which covered the testimony on the Michigan sitdown strikes, including the testimony of Judge Gadola and ex-City Manager Barringer that the "treasonable" conduct of Governor Murphy had resulted in "a breakdown of civil authority." We cannot hope to stop that type of reporting in the Tribune, but we may succeed in making it embarrassing...
...your tax money that is going to pay these WPA workers? And if it is, what are you getting for your money? ... A square deal for both Capital and Labor-the equalization of responsibility -compulsory arbitration-and the outlawing of 'wildcat' and 'sitdown' strikes. In other words, industrial peace through cooperation...