Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...umbrellas, but was continued for its own sake. I received a hard blow in the eye from a rolled magazine as I turned my head for an instant . . . I am extremely thankful that I received the blow instead of the girl I was with, and that it did not strike endwise, instead of sideways, as it did, so that most of the force was taken by my check-bone; even so, my sight has not entirely cleared after 48 hours...
...first day. Like A. F. of L., C. I. O. declared for a Japanese boycott, condemned the National Labor Relations Board. It unanimously resolved that contracts were sacred. It announced that it had spent $1,745,968 in the past 16 months, more than $900,000 on the steel strike alone. But just as C. I. 0. was A. F. of L.'s principal business, so A. F. of L. turned out to be the most important concern of C.I.O...
...their discs may be broadcast, in Manhattan a formula drawn up by representatives of some 250 U. S. broadcasting stations promised both more money and more work for musicians who play directly over the radio. President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians had threatened a music strike if broadcasters did not hire enough new musicians to bring total expenditures for radio music from $1,500,000 to $5,000,000 a year (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante). As members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the 250 station representatives last week agreed in principle to President Weber...
...Thomas R. Jones from the faculty . . . has been accepted. He feels ... he has inadvertently placed Duquesne University in an unfavorable light and that his resignation may clarify the situation." Campus consensus was that ardent football fan Father Jones had been punted out. His students staged a strike but it quickly collapsed and Father Jones packed himself off to brood on the discovery that not all football mishaps occur on the gridiron...
...Angeles, members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Beverly Knitting Mill went on strike for higher wages. Like several disgusted employers before him Owner L. G. Griffith explained: "All right. I'm through. You run it." Three strikers took him up. formed a new $25.000 corporation, hired onetime Owner Griffith as sales manager, signed a bargaining agreement with the union, reopened for work...