Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article entitled 'Peace over Toledo" you outline the settlement made in the Auto-Lite strike [TIME, June 11]. So that your information may be accurate we are pleased to enclose copy of the agreement...
...report TIME erred in four major points. 1) TIME said Electric Auto-Lite Co. agreed to "rehire first those who did not strike, then the strikers, then men employed prior to the strike, last (and probably not at all) the strikebreakers." Fact: The company promised to rehire all strikers within a week. In case of layoffs, the company promised to discharge first those men who were hired since Feb. 23, which includes strikebreakers. 2) TIME said: "Workers will be represented by officials of the striking union, thereby practically killing off the company union." Fact: The agreement called for workers...
...prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another, one might see the panama of NRA's General Johnson, the grey fedoras of the National Labor Board's Senator Wagner and Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor-but seldom "Madam Queen's" tricorn...
...seem advisable. The Secretary is fully empowered to represent me in taking whatever action seems advisable under the circumstances. . . ." Then Mr. Roosevelt departed gaily for the crew races at New London. When appealed to there by Governor Merriam of California for settlement of the Pacific Coast longshoremen's strike (TIME, June 25), he promptly wired back that Miss Perkins was in charge. She was. She had already telegraphed San Francisco a proposal to mediate the only issue still in dispute. Meantime she had also telephoned to the heads of the Iron & Steel Institute the union's peace proposals...
...gold standard, resented the implied opinion of francs and French securities expressed by Baron Maurice de Rothschild to Chicago reporters: "Any one who has money would be wise to in vest it in United States dollars or Government bonds. That is my opinion. War or revolution will not strike America, but in Europe, no matter how secure we may become financially, the forces of war or revolution are seething...