Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Embattled last week on a coast-to-coast picket line, the American Newspaper Guild, in a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, charged the New York Times with "coercion and interference with the organization of the employes." In Seattle a drawn-out strike against the Star was stalemated, a new strike against the Bayonne, N. J. Times was met with a drastic injunction forbidding every form of picketing and any attempt to influence other employes. But in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. the Guild won a notable victory as it ended a strike against the Record: effective Jan. 1 all editorial...
...present Mexican oil crisis began last May with a nation-wide strike by oilworkers for more pay and shorter hours. Since foreign oil companies pay 7% of Mexico's taxes, a prolonged strike threatened Government finances as well as those of the foreign oil companies. After two weeks, therefore, President Cárdenas intervened, commissioned a group of Government experts to investigate. Two months later in a 3,250-page report the experts ordered 17 foreign companies to raise wages some $7,000,000 (TIME, Aug. 16). Contending that the report was "grossly unfair," the companies refused...
Meantime in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Junk Peddlers' Union, with 150 members who would like to join C. I. O. but say they cannot afford the dues, donated $50 to the Chicago strike, prepared to demand that the city keep children and organized charities from cutting in on their business. Said Harry Morgenstein, the union's business agent: "If the country doesn't want the families of about 300 junk collectors on relief, something will have to be done to stop this unfair competition from organizations like the Salvation Army...
...Ohio Penitentiary, Columbus, Inmate James Mason climbed the prison's 150-ft. water tower, remained on its catwalk 17 hours in a "sit-up" strike for parole. His reward: psychoanalysis...
...reason why the School has not forged far ahead of its nearest rivals seems to be that the University as a whole has lately been functioning under a policy calculated in theory to strike a careful balance between research and teaching, but which in practice has tended to emphasize research. The Faculty idea that pure intellectual training and research should be the most important elements in the making of teachers shows to what degree the spirit of research has permeated University minds and out-balanced that of teaching. The weakness of the School in this respect appears one particular proof...