Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality." The brand of Arkansas hospitality accorded Preacher Williams and Miss Blagden last week swung the spotlight of national attention on the 1936 Arkansas sharecroppers' strike which had been fumbling along unnoticed for four weeks...
Called last month, the strike involved 6,500 workers in six Remington-Rand plants-Ilion, Tonawanda and Syracuse, N. Y., Marietta and Norwood, Ohio and Middletown, Conn. By last week the strike had got down to scabs, scuffles, professional strikebreakers and pitched battles with police. Though President Rand considered it largely the work of Communists, the affair apparently originated last year when the company bought a factory in Elmira...
Early last month the suspicion that they might lose their jobs without warning had grown so strong among Syracuse unionites that they called a meeting, agreed it would be worth a strike to get the air cleared. Locals in the other plants voted to go along with them. After a fortnight's silence, the company suddenly passed out ballots at all six plants with a warning reference to the Guffey decision (TIME, May 25). "The Supreme Court," read the ballots, "decided that one group of employees cannot dictate to any other workers. . . . Do you wish to strike...
...workers returned to work, they could have what jobs were left in the Syracuse plant, held out hopes of a big increase in the Syracuse payroll by autumn. Great was the Syracusans' surprise, therefore, when Remington-Rand issued a statement which explained a great deal about the strike...
...greatly increase its manufacturing efficiency by this consolidating of plants. The company announces the policy of moving desirable experienced employes at the company's expense to new locations to which their work has been transferred. . . . The completion of this program completely puts a very definite end to the strike...