Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evolution. In the early stages of the longshoremen's strike there was just one big issue between employers and unions: Who should control the "hiring halls?" No insignificant issue was this to unions or employers because longshoremen are frequently hired and laid off. Therefore whichever side makes up the waiting lists...
...adequate issue was this for the strike that San Francisco had last week. Other marine unions?seamen, pilots, cooks and stewards?jumped into the fray with demands of their own for pay, hours, union recognition. Hot-headed strike leaders welcomed alliance with open arms, for it gave them an opportunity to shake a bigger stick. When Joseph P. Ryan, national president of the International Longshoremen's Association, tried to negotiate a settlement on the basis of non-partisan control of the hiring halls, Leader Bridges and his embattled followers turned down the agreement because it did not provide for their...
...break the strike, employers fortnight ago "opened the waterfront" by moving freight under guard. The strikers heaved bricks, police used gas and guns, and 48 hours later National Guardsmen marched in. Thenceforward the struggle ceased to be between strikers and employers but became a struggle between strikers and the State. The marine workers appealed to their fellow unions for a general strike, and San Francisco's militant unions jumped to take sides. Some groups, reluctant to join, were intimidated. Aggressive strike leaders had, however, a potent cause, an issue to arouse emotion: should Labor impose its will or should...
...order" slogan during the Boston police strike of 1919 started Governor Calvin Coolidge to power and the Presidency...
...George, 14, neither of whom has appeared in cinema. Not yet old enough to go to school, Shirley Temple expects to do so in September. Aware that she receives fan mail she has none of it read to her lest it make her egocentric. When not on strike, Shirley is taken to the studio by her mother, who says "sparkle, Shirley, sparkle!" when her daughter starts a scene...