Word: sitdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Knudsen in the big General Motors Building on Grand Boulevard West, U. A. W.'s Martin in the Hofmann Building on downtown Woodward Avenue. Their battlefield was the whole U. S. As the week began. 14 G. M. plants had been closed or crippled by U. A. W. "sitdown" strikes, throwing 40,600 employes out of work. When the week ended, 28 plants and 93,000 out of a total 135,000 production employes were idle...
...provoking violence. Hugging this advantage, General Martin refused to call out his sit-downers until G. M. should promise in writing not to remove dies and machinery during negotiations. This General Knudsen would not do. At week's end negotiations collapsed. This week General Knudsen & staff commenced a "sitdown" of their own, General Martin flew to Washington to confer with Generalissimo Lewis...
...before to discuss compromise of his demand for A. F. of L.'s complete surrender on the issue of industrial unionism. Last week the C. I. O. Union News, making a metaphor from the latest method of industrial protest, described the A. F. of L. convention as a "sitdown against Labor...