Word: sitdowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Promote no company unions, for they breed sitdown strikes...
Having locked themselves in their projection booths with food & water for a sitdown, the two operators thus announced their strike by playing on the sound equipment a record prepared in advance, an idea originated by the business agent of Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators Union (A. F. of L.). Two other operators did the same thing in another Manhattan theatre (run by the same corporation) the same night. Their demands were met by 6 a. m. the following morning...
...formal report of what happened next was drawn up and informal stories varied. According to one version, when the driver reached the nearest point on his route to the scientists' destination and asked them to get out, they refused. One said: "We will have a sitdown strike." When the driver threatened to remove them and their baggage from his vehicle by force, a strike committee pointed out that the energy output involved in any such procedure would be greater than that required to take them to the university. The driver yielded to this logic, drove his passengers to Swain...
Cocking a purposeful eye across the border at John L. Lewis (see p. 17), His Majesty's diligent Crown Prosecutor Oscar Gagnon declared in Montreal last week: "Sitdown strikes are illegal in Canada. If one move is made to break any Canadian law, Lewis or anyone else will be taken into custody...
...sitdown' technique ... is subject to no control except by labor leaders (see p. 20) . . . [and] is revolutionary in its dangers and implications. It should be dealt with by those responsible for law and order. . . . The sooner that be recognized, the better for all concerned...