Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time the luckless Governor found himself embroiled in a front-page argument with Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. He claimed that the Secretary of Labor had urged him to "kidnap" the recalcitrant steelmasters, sit them down with John Lewis, "keep them there until they signed an agreement...
...least one occasion Secretary of Labor Perkins has indicated that in her mind the legal status of the Sit-Down was not proven. President Roosevelt, a lawyer by training, is known to have had no illusions that the Sit-Down was legal but to have deprecated it as no crime, just a misdemeanor. Last week in Philadelphia in the first Sit-Down ruling from the Federal bench, the Circuit Court of Appeals declared that sit-downers in a local hosiery mill were not only guilty of such crimes as forcible entry and forcible detainer but had violated the Wagner...
...Hosiery's Philadelphia plant, refused to budge until they won a closed-shop contract. The company claimed the plant was stormed from without, that 2,500 workers were driven from their jobs, that $3,000,000 worth of damage was done during the rioting. For seven weeks the sit-downers held complete possession. After a Federal District Court judge denied Apex an injunction, the company appealed. Said the three Circuit Court jurists in last week's unanimous opinion...
...defiance of all law and order, and in ruthless disregard of the rights of others, should be permitted, by assuming the name of a union, to deprive all others of their means of livelihood and compel them to contribute of their earnings to self-styled leaders. A few 'sit-downers' are keeping 2,500 persons, who were entirely satisfied with their positions, from working and from earning an honest living for themselves and their families. If an employer had denied to Labor any of its rights, the Wagner Act provided an orderly way of calling him to account...
Hammering headlines from the steel front (see p. 11) drove shares to new lows and near records for inactivity for the year. It was the first time since C. I. O. got into action that strike news has been a general market factor. The motor sit-downs last winter merely interrupted the market's upward climb and prices were later pushed to new recovery highs...