Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated last week that in little more than two months the deadlocked shipping strike had cost workers, shippers and their far-flung clients some $457,000,000. Biggest and costliest of its kind though it was, as the year turned there was brewing another industrial battle which promised to make the shipping strike look like a brawl in a waterfront saloon. One mighty antagonist was the world's largest automobile manufacturer, General Motors Corp., master of almost half the nation's No. i industry. The other was the Committee for Industrial Organization chairmanned by the boldest Labor leader...
...hours later a sit-down at Flint's Fisher Plant No. i closed it and crippled the Buick assembly plant which it supplies. Out of work in Flint alone were 14,600 General Motors employes; the local U. A. W. organizer called for $100,000 to finance the strike. Followed sit-downs in G. M.'s Guide Lamp Division at Anderson, Ind., its Fisher and Chevrolet plants at Norwood, Ohio. As U. S. factories closed for the long New Year's weekend, nine G. M. plants with 33,000 employes were already idle and the rest...
...Last fortnight Leader Lewis, demanding collective bargaining, thundered an "ultimatum" at General Motors. But, occupied as he was with a national steel organizing campaign, an internecine fight with leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the possibility of having to lead his United Mine Workers in a strike against the nation's soft coal operators, few observers believed that he would also risk a head-on clash with great G. M. Hence there was reason last week to believe U. A. W. assertions that the burgeoning G. M. sit-down strikes were, at least in part, spontaneous outbursts...
Most serious threat to the motor industry came last week as the Federation of Flat Glass Workers, demanding more pay, closed shop and check-off of union dues, added 5,600 employes of Libbey-Owens-Ford plants in Toledo, Shreveport and Charleston, W. Va., to the 1,300 already striking in Libbey's Ottawa, Ill. plant and 6,000 in five plants of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. U. S. manufacture of plate glass was thus brought virtually to a halt. Between.them, Libbey-Owens-Ford and Pittsburgh make 90% of the nation's plate glass, 85% of its automobile...
...under the tutelage of Professor Richard Robert, he made his debut in Vienna. At 14 he began to study composition under Modernist Arnold Schonberg. He met Violinist Adolf Busch when he was 17, thenceforth appeared with him in chamber music recitals. He began to strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year...