Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour motor drive south from San Francisco. In the three normal three-month "deals" or lettuce seasons of the year, growers around Wratsonville and Salinas ship as high as 300 carloads of lettuce per day, raise about 25% of the annual U. S. crop. Two years ago a violent strike tied up the Salinas-Watsonville fields. Settlement came with the signing of a contract between the Fruit & Vegetable Workers' Union and the Growers-Shippers' Association. Fortnight ago the contract came up for renewal. Agreement stalled when the growers objected to a clause giving unionists "preferential hiring," called...
...autumn 95% of the nation's lettuce comes from Salinas. By last week, with both sides still in disagreement and the crop waiting in fields and sheds for shipment, this $11,000,000 agricultural industry seemed thoroughly paralyzed. A Growers-Shippers' Association official estimated that the strike was losing his friends and their idle employes...
...this added up to a first-rate marine labor crisis on the West Coast which threatened to tighten rather than ease as Sept. 30 drew near. On that date expires the agreement reached after the 1934 general strike by the waterfront labor unions, notably Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's Association, and the Waterfront Employers' Association. Negotiations on a contract to replace it found both sides in a thoroughly truculent mood last week. Debates were featured by such extreme proposals from both labor and management that the shipowners finally suggested arbitration. The longshoremen agreed to poll their members...
...caught him without his weapons. His story is paralleled by that of his brother, Peter, who was driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath her station, became obsessed with her husband's fighting ability, egged him into one fight after another, provided him with girls when his passion for her ended. Although these figures are sometimes vividly...
...TIME TO REMEMBER-Leane Zugsmith-Random House ($2.00). Skillful novel about a strike in a department store, complete with clear portraits of cashiers, shoe-salesmen, harassed employers, unwilling informers, unromanticized union leaders, weakened by a too simple picture of the daily routine of a large store...