Search Details

Word: strike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Francisco, the Chamber of Commerce announced that the strike had crippled shipment of $75,000,000 worth of West Coast freight, was adding to that figure at the rate of $3,000,000 per day. Relief rolls were swelling, heavy construction being curtailed, perishable foods intended for export being dumped on local markets. San Francisco's Federation of Churches requested a day of "public and private prayers" for a strike settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sea Stall | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady continued striving to arbitrate the strike, his first break came late last week when the Ship Owners' Association of the Pacific, which had reached agreements with five disgruntled unions before the strike began, gave in to a sixth, the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association. Despite its imposing name, however, S.O.A.P. comprises only 20 of 80 shipping companies involved, operates only 70 coastwise schooners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sea Stall | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Hardest hit of all by the strike was Alaska, which imports 85% of its food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sea Stall | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Last week a deal was made whereby the Government gave the striking unions substantially everything they were demanding from their employers-control of hiring halls, higher pay, cash for overtime. Suggesting that this be made precedent for settling the whole strike, International Longshoremen's Association crowed in San Francisco: "It is interesting to note that the U. S. Government recognizes the demands of the strikers as just and reasonble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sea Stall | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...eight Crittenden County blackamoors for vagrancy, railroaded them through a Justice of the Peace Court, and forced them to clear timber on his plantation to work out 30-day sentences and $25 fines. The Negroes were enslaved, it was charged, because Peacher was short of labor due to a strike of cotton choppers in the vicinity. Best Government witness was Winfield Anderson, cowering 51-year-old Negro who sat in the witness chair with his paralyzed right arm hanging limp at his side. Witness Anderson testified that he was sitting on the front porch of his home, which he owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Slavery in Arkansas | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | Next