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Essential difference between a walk-out and a sitdown, wrote he, is: "Instead of employes severing their relations and thereby automatically placing themselves outside as dissatisfied former employes, they now insist on maintaining their relations while they negotiate about their complaints...
...four important respects Chrysler's labor troubles differed from the General Motors situation two months earlier, to wit: 1) Chrysler's negotiations began before the sitdown...
...outside strike-either way he is in effect deprived of the use of his property. Nevertheless, a plant cannot be shut from the outside unless a substantial majority of its employes join the strike. A very small minority of employes can generally shut down a plant by a sitdown. If the sit-down should be made legal, the question would still remain whether society would tolerate having its industries shut down at will by any minority that chooses to use the weapon...
...unless I work and sell, they won't have any work to do," said 56-year-old Mr. Fry, who is his small firm's chief salesman. "If all industry would do something like this," he declared on the third day of his sitdown, "it would solve the epidemic of sit-down strikes. Some of my workers are consulting a union book of strike rules, but there's nothing in the book about Fry or how to make Fry work." On the fifth day the baffled strikers decided to forget about their union, sat down with President...
Future debates will have as subjects the following questions, in all of which the Yardlings will take the affirmative: Congress' power to enact minimum wage and maximum hours legislation for industry, the President's proposed judiciary reform measures, and the sitdown strike as a legal weapon of labor...