Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-two of the 90 men are now on strike and Dunlevy yesterday made "an appeal to the Harvard faculty who make up most of the telephone patronage of the Yellow Cab Company...
...consigned to other users over its lines. Pennsylvania's Legislature at Harrisburg formally begged the negotiators to come to terms. Here and there union pickets dumped coal trucked from non-union mines, and police began to worry that prolonged abstention might turn into a bloody, old-fashioned coal strike. Nearly everywhere, company stores owned by the standpat operators continued to sell food on credit to John Lewis' abstaining miners...
Coal-bearing West Virginia was getting its coal on prescription (as other States had to get liquor during Prohibition) because John Llewellyn Lewis and operators in the great Appalachian coal fields had been unable to agree to a new wage contract. There had been no "strike." There was simply an "abstention from work." Day after day in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, Messrs. Lewis, Charles O'Neill of the operators and three other negotiators for each side swapped stories, cussed Hitler, disagreed about Roosevelt, issued futile counterblasts to the press. They had been doing approximately this since their last...
Lewis, O'Neill & associates were not simply wasting time. Each side waited for the other to crack under increasing pressure from U. S. coal consumers. John Lewis hoped the operators would crack to the point of giving him a closed shop,* or a contract clause permitting him to strike whenever A. F. of L.'s unions, particularly the small Progressive Miners of America, may try to encroach on U. M. W. preserves. Many an operator was willing to surrender by last week, but as a group they still hung together for renewal of the old contract, including...
...should be reinstated. The Times has tried to prove that they were fired for incompetence and should stay fired. But of far more importance than what happens to the three employes is the fundamental conflict between Guild and Times, where the Guild has never felt strong enough to strike...