Word: sitdowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sitdown Strike. In 1937 much of Flint was sprayed by tear gas as the U.A.W. staged its first major sitdown strike, against G.M. Today most people agree that the U.A.W. raised Flint's level of prosperity by getting its members a bigger share of G.M.'s increasing income, just as G.M. managers raised the level by continuing to increase the income...
This order, which Stilwell later was appalled to discover had been far too harshly carried out by overzealous subordinates, provoked a sitdown strike among the Marauders. As a mobile, one-shot force, they had succeeded brilliantly in harassing action, losing only 424 men in combat while inflicting tremendous casualties on the Japanese. But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits-while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action. The Marauders were neither prepared nor equipped for the Myitkyina battle. They were withdrawn in June, disbanded in August...
...labor authority. "Anyone who goes out on a labor story and doesn't fall flat on his face," says Lahey deprecatingly, "becomes, quote a labor expert, unquote." Nevertheless, Expert Lahey combined human interest and fair-minded interpretation to such good effect in covering the 1937 steel and auto sitdown strikes that he was assigned to top labor stories throughout the U.S., became a close friend of union leaders...
According to a Detroit Y.M.C.A. questionnaire which he filled out in 1927, he wanted to be either 1) a chicken farmer or 2) a labor leader. Within a decade, he was leading thousands of men in the great sitdown strikes of Depression-era Detroit. By now, restless, redheaded, hard-driving Walter Reuther, who could never have confined himself long to a hen house, has reached the top of the heap in the alternate career: he has more personal power-although not more popularity-than any other leader of U.S. labor...
...talents of a Commando leader in his strike strategy. In 1939, to save strike funds, he pulled out General Motors tool-and-die men at exactly the right moment to stop all production; the other workers, technically nonstrikers, collected state unemployment compensation. In 1937, during the bitter, G.M. sitdown at Flint, Mich., he helped to organize the seizure of a key building and stop production...