Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hounds. Farmers perennially growl that the squires break down their fences, trample their crops. Squires perennially reply that privileges and increased property values pay for the damage they do. Last week this dispute-in England as old as the Norman Conquest-became part of the current U. S. strike rash...
...surround the Mellon 12,000. To pay them for the privilege of hunting their land, Rolling Rock has guaranteed the farmers extra work at $3 a day. Last week, 49 of the farmers doing extra work at Rolling Rock left their plows in their first spring furrows, went on strike. Into the Pittsburgh office of Rolling Rock's Master of Fox Hounds "Dick" Mellon went four farmers' representatives to present their demands: 10? an hour more pay, wider privileges...
...General Motors' 342,384 stockholders President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. last week sent two communications: a 62-page annual report and a 13-page "Story of the General Motors Strike." From these, wrote President Sloan, the stockholder may "obtain as complete an understanding as is possible of the Corporation's position and of such influences as may affect its trend in the future." GM in 1936 sold 2,037,690 automobiles and trucks, exceeding by 7% the previous all- time high mark of 1,899,267 (1929). For these cars last year and for many another GM product...
While the annual report pronounced attempts to forecast undesirable, President Sloan's letter dealing with the strike left no doubt that the Influence which may affect the future of the world's No. 1 motormaker is Labor. Wrote...
...strike against General Motors Corporation was not actuated by any fundamental causes that affected, in an important degree, the welfare of its workers. I am convinced that this is an unprejudiced statement of fact. ... As is very generally recognized, working conditions, including the wage scale and the hours of work, in the automotive industry and in General Motors, are such that the automobile worker stands as the most favored of all workers in American industry. . . . Then what was the real objective [of the strike] ? . . . The purpose was to obtain the maximum possible recognition, carrying with it the greatest degree...