Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last fortnight when he called NLRB a "kangaroo court" which should be scrapped before it made "economic hash of our national welfare," Senator Gerald P. Nye last week resumed fire on the floor of the Senate, attacking the Board for failure to hold an election in Philadelphia's strike-wrecked Apex Hosiery Co. (TIME, July 5). The North Dakota Senator trumpeted: "If a great Government is going to tolerate administration by a board or a bureau which in turn is going to tolerate practices of that kind, the hour is not far off when Americans are going...
Passed by the Michigan Legislature last June was a broad new labor statute, inaccurately referred to as a "Little Wagner Act." Among the provisions of the law was a ban on: 1) mass picketing which obstructed "or otherwise interfered" with entrance to a striking plant; 2) picketing which obstructed public highways or 3) picketing by people not directly involved in the strike. This was not precisely what Labor-loving Governor Murphy wanted but he pronounced the measure a long step toward industrial peace...
Nevertheless the Governor did not sign the bill. While it lay on his desk he listened to bitter protests from labor leaders who saw in the "otherwise" clause an open invitation to a reactionary court to forbid picketing altogether. Limiting picketing to those on strike precluded even demonstrations by strikers' wives & daughters. Last week one hour before the law would have become effective Governor Murphy vetoed...
This "Chinese treachery," as indignant Japanese at once branded it, was smartly timed. About 3,000 Japanese troops recently made up the garrison, but 2,900 had just marched away to help suppress "rebellious Chinese" trying to strike a blow for their country at nearby Nanyuan. It was all in the day's work for the Japanese garrison of 100, although taken by surprise and outnumbered by 10-to-1, to stand off the Chinese. These peppered the Japanese barracks with their machine guns, then entrenched themselves in nearby cornfields over which four Japanese planes circled around & around, bombing...
...struck!" Then, one after another, in the Shubert, Playhouse, Lyric, Astor, Knickerbocker-in all but one of Broadway's showhouses-lights were dimmed and the customers were told to go home. There would be no show that night. Broadway's showfolk had gone out on strike...