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Word: strike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...isolated harbors, seagoing Franklin Roosevelt last week provided the seven correspondents expensively trailing him in a chartered schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Home from Sea | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Manhattan newshawk who went to interview him when Secretary Perkins appointed him mediator of Toledo's Electric Auto-lite Co. strike two years ago, Charlie Taft inquired: "What is there about an Ohio lawyer to interest the East?" Last week not even modest Mr. Taft could deny that his views were of interest to the whole nation. A frequent Topeka visitor since December, he largely drafted the Landon planks on relief, social security and civil service reform, went to the Cleveland Convention as Alf Landon's personal representative to see that they got into the platform. Few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Middle-of-the-Roader | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Same hour, same day as the Democratic National Convention opened in Philadelphia last month, 9,000 members of the United Electrical and Radio Workers of America went on strike at RCA Manufacturing Co.'s plant at Camden, N. J. Official demands of this potent industrial union were a closed shop, abolition of RCA's company union, a 20% wage increase. Real objectives were recognition by RCA of the union as sole collective bargaining agency within the plant, the same working conditions accorded employes of the nearby Philco Radio and Television Corp. factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Conflict in Camden | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Unable to patch up the trouble with RCA was Chairman John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Equally ineffectual was General Hugh S. Johnson, engaged by RCA as mediator. At first the strike was marked by nothing more violent than United Workers cheering pickets on with Sousa marches blared through a loudspeaker. RCA retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Conflict in Camden | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Last week the Camden lid blew off to make real news. In its "final statement," RCA demanded that the strike cease, refused to recognize John Lewis' United Workers as the sole bargaining agency even if a Labor Relations Board poll should show it to represent a majority of RCA's plant employes. One afternoon last week a crowd of 3,000. including 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp. sympathizers, went after RCA employes as they filed out of the plant. Bricks, stones and clubs flew freely in a two-hour pitched battle (see cuts). Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Conflict in Camden | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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