Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Participation in a sit-down strike is the performance of an illegal act and if any occurred in a plant of mine I wouldn't hesitate to advise discharge...
From Manhattan President Sloan issued GM's first quarter financial report showing the effect on earnings of the 42-day strike engineered by Homer Martin's U.A.W. Net profits for the first three months of 1937 were $44,814,000, a 15% decrease from the $52,464,000 earned during the same period last year. Net sales were substantially equaled: $336,850,000 in 1937 as compared with $341,306,000. At week's end, GM directors met in Manhattan, elected President Sloan their chairman, vice Lammot du Pont, retired. President Sloan's old job fell...
...When Chrysler directors met in Manhattan last week they received from President K. T. Keller the corporation's first quarter report showing a 56% increase in the sale of Chrysler cars over last year despite interruption of operations during a five-week strike. Net sales were $183,207,000, compared with $148,464,000 during the first quarter of 1936. Net profits, however, decreased from $11,453,000 to $10,914.000. These figures studied, Chrysler directors upped the quarterly dividend rate from...
...phenomenal." He had practically no sense of humor, he was a vegetarian, and never understood Shakespeare. His theory of education: that a child knows all the right answers already, has only to be asked the right questions. On the rare occasions when a pupil needed severe punishment, instead of striking the child Alcott had the child strike...
...living with his mother in The Bronx, was a smart guy and knew it better than anybody. A brief experience as a shipping clerk in the Seventh Avenue garment district gave him his big idea. With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...