Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprang up to object that the amendment was badly phrased and unjustly applied to coal miners, to blame the Sit-Down on employers' anti-union tactics. But Senator Johnson roared: "We do a great disservice to this Nation when in this body, gentlemen debate the Sit-Down strike and say it is unlawful but-but-but, and then begin to give fanciful reasons for its existence...
...their agony in unequivocating words. Declared he: "One of the reasons why we in the Senate find ourselves in trouble at the moment in connection with this problem is the fact that Governmental agencies dealing with labor relationships have been so completely silent respecting the Sit-Down strike. They are very vocal indeed respecting the obligations of the employer, but as silent as the tomb respecting obligations to law and order and the maintenance of civilized society. ... If this proposal goes to a vote on the floor of the Senate and is defeated, the inevitable interpretation will be that...
Blood or Sanctity. Conscientious citizens could sympathize with President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, who wrote to his stockholders last week: "The Sit-Down strike should be dealt with by those responsible for law and order just as aggressively as all other offenses in which the safety and welfare of the community are involved...
Reviewing his own strike, whose cost to the national economy he estimated at "many hundreds of millions of dollars," President Sloan asserted that it had represented not workers struggling toward better lives, but Labor bosses grasping for power. Yet the "unauthorized" General Motors sit-downs which were embarrassing union leaders last week showed that plain workers, awakened to a sense of their own power, were taking the new weapon in their own hands. Aghast at wholesale seizure of private property, some jittery souls were calling the Sit-Down a step upward communism. To calmer observers, the sit-downer...
When Chrysler strike negotiations resumed in Lansing at week's end with the return of Walter P. Chrysler and John L. Lewis from Manhattan. Motorman Chrysler's hand was vastly strengthened by the evidence of U. A. W.'s inability to live up to its agreements. This week the deadlock continued as in normally Republican Michigan's elections for minor State offices, widely anticipated as a referendum on Governor Murphy's sit-down policy, the Republicans showed signs of digging out from under the November landslide...