Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hartford boarded a train and turned his back on Cleveland. Next morning while the Cleveland union fumed and the unorganized store managers and clerks protested the loss of their jobs, organized labor transferred the struggle to Wisconsin and Milwaukee. There the Meat Cutters' & Butchers' Union ordered a strike in 26 A. & P. stores-and, for good measure, in the Kroger Grocery stores as well...
Beliefs: Labor is King. Unionization is Utopia. National issues are irrelevant, but nevertheless Roosevelt is a "strike-breaker." Election of Sinclair, a pseudo-Socialist, would be a setback to "radicalism...
...that the A and P has consistently violated the provision of the Code which provides that the employer shall not "intimidate, coerce, or dismiss employees for joining organizations of their own choosing." On the other hand, the A and P insists that there has been at no time a strike among their own employees, that the present crisis was instituted by outside union men and professional agitators, and that they have continually given assurance through the Press of their desire to comply in both letter and spirit with section 7a of the Code, providing that employees of labor shall deal...
Milwaukee, Oct. 29--A strike of union meat cutters, involving 100 stores of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and nine of the Kroger Grocery Company here and at Racine, left business virtually undisturbed today...
Defying God, if He exists, to strike one dead, is all very well for the smalltime, itinerant atheist. But hamfisted, leather-lunged Emelyan Yaroslavsky is the biggest shot in world atheism. As the walloping chairman of the Soviet League of Militant Godless, Comrade Yaroslavsky pulls the levers of a Juggernaut that rumbles on night and day, crunching Russian churches, chasing priests from their holes, destroying icons and uprooting holy matrimony-but not fecund wedlock...