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...Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged a sitdown strike, Conservative Bridgman just sat tight. At the Art Students League, a teacher's tenure is subject to the vote of the student body. For 43 years that student body has not been able to dispense with "Old Man" Bridgman...
...Automobile Manufacturers Association had answered: "The men who led the original sitdown strikes, who tolerated and encouraged not scores but hundreds of sitdowns, slowdowns and other forms of production sabotage, now propose that they are the capable ones to guide . . . production for war." The issue was clear: the union wanted power to help control production policies; to management, the idea of giving the union such power was anathema...
...last week to the Governor of Michigan: "I wish to inform you that no labor dispute exists between this company and its employes, despite attempts of certain groups of labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program...
...make it a formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy. To Detroit went wise, placid Phil Murray, and into private...
...corporation won a continued open shop, Chrysler will continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler's 58,000 workers, dropped to 5?, got 3? (plus additional raises for 5,000 in special classifications). Total annual wage increase: about...