Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settlement of the automobile strike seems in itself enough to cause jubilation. The economic wastage to all parties concerned seemed great enough to justify almost any solution...
...monstrous size and reappear in the same industry in the next six months, and are almost certain to be raised elsewhere. First, can a minority group of perhaps ten or fifteen percent force a much greater group of satisfied employees out of work? Secondly, is it possible for this striking group to use as its weapon the illegal occupation of plants? Thirdly, can unions continue to have what Mr. Justice Brandeis called "practical immunity from legal liability," can they stave of, even in such instances as the present, incorporation or at least some sort of public supervision? The answer...
...they were impressive enough to discountenance any suggestions of face-saving. For the present, we can thank God and Governor Murphy. As for the future, the new technique and the measurable success attending it use should cause the public to cast a suspicious eye on the budding of further strike developments...
...demand for dictatorial sway. And an interesting commentary on the whole performance is the tomb-like silence from the Harvard Law School, where a group of influential and honorable men, instead of running to the defence of tradition, are indulging in a little sit-down-and-wait strike of their own. For Caesar is ambitious, and the honorable men find it profitable to play on his team...
...wandering boy comes home with a wife, Ruth (Tamara), a beautiful Jewish radical and labor agitator. It is not long before she ousts the old-line labor bosses in the local mill, organizes a strike. The mill owner (Clyde Fillmore) is tough, too. He imports a gang of scabs and arms 20 deputized thugs with machine guns to protect them. Ruth's crowd also has machine guns and the streets are just about ready to run with his fellow citizens blood when Druggist Cogswell gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist...