Word: stayin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...undermining the union. These things, however, were not in controversy. All that the union gained was that these things were put in writing. The union on its part promised not to coerce employes to join, not to permit its members to take part in "any sit-down or stayin strike or other stoppage" in any Chrysler plant for the period of the agreement (one year). Lesser matters were left to further negotiation...
Salengro, Socialism & Spain. The Radical French "stayin" strikes of last summer were put down by virile M. Salengro when they were becoming a national menace (TIME, June 8 et seq.) and this week, as nervous Premier Blum temporarily took charge of the Ministry of Interior himself, fresh stayin strikes erupted. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez turned what was to have been a Paris mass meeting of mourning for Suicide Salengro into a howling mob which screamed, "Cannon for Spain!" and "Down with Fascism!" at Defense Minister Edouard Daladier. Vainly he shouted, "I came here thinking we would all unite in commemorating...
...world. "Roger Salengro would not have asked any other vengeance!" explained M. Blum, who seemed to think that unless he took such "vengeance" upon French newspaper proprietors the mob might rend them limb from limb. At latest reports the entire metallurgical industry of Lille was paralyzed by a stayin strike vaguely linked with Salengro, Socialism & Spain...
Despite its promise, the Blum Government last week refused French businessmen's pleas that it show France one sample of how it proposed to get striking workers out of the factories. With 80,000 stayin strikers still on strike and farm laborers threatening a strike of their own, sole employer victory was the decision of a Pau court that strikers' occupation of a Pau beret factory was "illegal...