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...manufacturers asked for the easing of Federal and State restrictions on the use of labor injunctions. They asked that the Byrnes Act be amended to ban interstate transportation of "strike-makers" as well as strike breakers. They asked that a long list of strikes be declared illegal, including sitdown strikes, general strikes, strikes for a closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied "by continuous and systematic acts of violence and intimidation," strikes in violation of contracts, strikes "to prevent the use of materials, equipment or services." Another N. A. M. thought...
...heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan. When he became bored with freelancing last January, the News rehired him at an ordinary reporter's salary to do general assignments, among them the Fisher Body sitdown in Detroit. But stories like that do not break every...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2--The University of Pittsburgh football squad erroneously reported as on "sitdown strike." Members of the Varsity squad decided Saturday night on way back from Durham, N.C., where Duke was defeated Saturday that they would vote down any proposition of post season game. When, on Monday morning, they were asked to vote, they decided against participation...
...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...