Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers' appeal from a Circuit Court of Appeals injunction which ended an Apex Hosiery workers' sit-down strike in Philadelphia last June (TIME, July 5). If the lower court decision is upheld, sit-down strikes in industries in interstate commerce can hereafter be stopped by injunctions...
Philosophical Locations- In the 1920s, Brandeis, his closest friend Oliver Wendell Holmes and Harlan Fiske Stone formed a minority whose famed dissenting opinions became a Court tradition. When the majority had ruled against the right of a stonecutters' union to call a strike against a plaintiff's non-union products, Justice Brandeis, in 1927, summed up what is still an important part of his views on the Sherman Law. Pointing out that the law permitted Capital to combine 50% of the steel industry in one corporation, most of the shoe machinery industry in another, he wrote: "It would...
...down to defeat in two Ohio cities, where they backed the Democratic tickets. In Akron the United Rubber Workers saw their candidate, G. L. Patterson, nosed out by Republican Mayor Lee D. Schroy, 35,000-to-29,000. In Canton, one of the hottest salients in the "Little Steel" strike last summer, the Labor candidate, Darrell D. Smith, though backed by both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., was roundly trounced by Mayor James Seccombe...
...most flattering sign last week of Communist confidence in the ability of "Our Sun" to strike abroad came in no poem but in dispatches from Nanking. There officials close to the Soviet Embassy opined that Dictator Stalin is about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth...
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