Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit reporters and photographers have learned to expect gas and clubs as a matter of routine. During the Flint strike Reporter Gay Girardin of the Detroit Times was at a phone inside the Chevrolet plant talking to his city editor when rioting started. Tear and nausea gas clouds rolled in on him as he continued phoning his story, coughing and vomiting. Once he looked up to see a striker coming at him with a club. Girardin stopped the club in mid-air with a "Hello Tony." Most thoughtful Labor expert to emerge in Detroit has been lanky, young, bespectacled Reporter...
...Cradle Will Rock reports, with controlled and eloquent class hatred, a steel strike. Mr. Mister is the mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...
Hammering headlines from the steel front (see p. 11) drove shares to new lows and near records for inactivity for the year. It was the first time since C. I. O. got into action that strike news has been a general market factor. The motor sit-downs last winter merely interrupted the market's upward climb and prices were later pushed to new recovery highs...
Next the Radical Alliance bestowed its blessings upon a C.I.O. strike, that of workers in the Loose-Wiles Biscuit plant in Lawrenceville, Pa., and last fortnight the zealous trio of churchmen made a quick dash into the great and grim labor war in Steel (see p. 11). At Struthers, Ohio, while Monsignor O'Toole and Father Hensler looked approvingly on, Father Rice stood in the rain, harangued encouragement at strikers of Youngstown Sheet & Tube's coke plant. Ohio priests who had kept mum on or disapproved the C.I.O. were discomfited to learn that once more the Radical Alliance...
...without opposition from lesser Pittsburgh priests, the Radical Alliance quickly found a local strike in which to interest itself, that of the Canning & Pickle Workers' Union against Heinz Co., which had recognized a company union for collective bargaining. Fathers Rice & Hensler went down to the pickle workers' picket line, hoisted signs declaring "The Catholic Radical Alliance supports the Heinz strikers." Horrified, the pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor...