Word: sitdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outward current of returning water develops, clashes with oncoming breakers, creates a zone of roil and foam called "rip tide." Last week just such a countercurrent of public opinion was beginning to run stronger & stronger against the surging Sit-Down. Governors White of Mississippi, worried about a pajama factory sitdown, and Allred of Texas, worried about the C. I. O. oil drive starting this week, announced that they would oppose Sit-Downs with all the force at their command. With many a State legislature discussing the subject, Vermont's became the first to pass a law specifically outlawing...
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...
...inquisitor in the banking investigation of 1933-34 he easily made headlines by broaching' an argument which, if sit-down-strikes reach the proportions of a national crisis may become one of the big guns behind the drive for revising the Court. He accused investment bankers of a "sitdown" against the Securities Act of 1933 utilities men against the Utility Holding Company Act, employers against the Wagner Labor Relations Act and demanded: "How can you expect the working men and women to be religiously reverent of the letter of the law when the mighty and powerful who want...
...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...