Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sides deadlocked in mutual, righteous hatred. Labor condemned the hard-boiled labor-hating Citizens Alliance of the employers, accused it of owning the Minneapolis press and city government, of inciting the police to shoot 50 strike pickets (TIME, July 30). As protection against the intention of employers to use police ruthlessly to crush the strike, Labor asked martial law and Governor Olson declared it, forbade picketing, forbade the movement of trucks except by military permit...
With equal bitterness, the employers denounced the strike leaders, particularly the three Dunne brothers, members of a family of radical labor agitators whose activities date back to the days of the I. W. W. Employers insisted that the strike was not wanted by most of their employes, that the union leaders forced a standing vote on the strike with thugs on hand to knock the head off any one who dared to vote against it, that Communists, radicals and unemployed were all made union members and turned loose as marauders against trucks. To Labor's charge that 50 pickets were...
Managing the strike by martial law was not as easy as Governor Olson had anticipated. Despite his prohibition, pickets scooted about in cars, overturned trucks, beat drivers. Soon 150 pickets had been arrested and interned in a stockade at the State Fair Grounds. Although Governor Olson angrily denounced the Citizens Alliance, the union protested...
...Scab trucks are operating with military permits in ever-increasing numbers. Despite all his harsh words directed at the employers, Governor Olson directs all his harsh blows at the union and the strike." Governor Olson, who loves to proclaim his radicalism, found that martial law was gaining him no kudos with Labor. Finally he issued an ultimatum that unless the employers came to terms he would stop all truck movements. He kept his word. The strikers were delighted that troops should do their work of stopping truck movements. The employers bitterly demanded an injunction from the Federal District Court forbidding...
After a two-day rest-up at his mother's home in Okmulgee, Okla., NRAdministrator Johnson, accompanied by his ubiquitous secretary, Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, swept into Chicago last week to help settle the Stock Yard strike (see p. 9) and make one of his rip-roaring speeches at the Century of Progress. Neatly stacked in his room at the Drake Hotel upon his arrival were copies of the city's four leading newspapers: Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News; William Randolph Hearst's American and Herald & Examiner; Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune. General Johnson did not have...