Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South the strike for a 30-hour work-week at 40-hour pay, elimination of the stretch-out and union recognition, seemed to have reached its peak, settled down into an endurance contest. South Carolina strike leaders called off their "flying squadrons" of picketers, and most strikers stayed home. Important mills in the Carolinas bristled with bayonets. In Georgia, Governor Eugene Talmadge declared martial law, whipped up a "flying squadron" of his own-National Guardsmen who arrested and interned some 200 pickets, took control of troubled districts. The strike in the South remained roughly 40% effective...
...These three hurried to Washington to begin their job of peacemaking. The United Textile Workers complained that mill owners were overworking the "stretch-out," were refusing to bargain collectively. The employers complained that they could not afford to meet the union's demand of 40 hours pay for 30 hours work...
Already the textile code forbids unreasonable "stretch-out," and requires collective bargaining. As for higher wages and shorter hours, an NRA investigation recently resulted in a report that the indus-try could not afford them under present conditions...
Although she joined him first as secretary, she quickly advanced to a position of importance. During the code-making days she worked with him often as much as 20 hours at a stretch. She reviewed parades with him. She got herself photographed with him. She attended banquets with him. She went to business conferences at the White House with him. She went to diplomatic receptions at the White House with him. And, above all, she traveled with him?over 40,000 miles to date, mostly by air. She went to the Pacific Coast
Fortnight ago the United Textile Workers held a meeting in Manhattan and with only a handful of dissenting votes demanded that NRA increase wages, cut hours, end the "stretch-out" and grant them union recognition. Otherwise?a strike on or about Sept. 1. Since President McMahon had been elevated to the Labor Advisory Board, Vice President Francis J. Gorman, a dark, stocky, ruddy-faced man, equally as well dressed as Leader McMahon, but more aggressive, was sent to Washington to prepare for the strike. Turning down overtures of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, he announced that 300,000 cotton...