Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strike, Then...
...leaders of the different labor organizations. Too much of the racket appears. Doubt as to the success of the NRA is more frequently spoken of in quarters not heard from before and most from places where labor is presenting difficulties. Little mention is made of the great number of strikes being called because of disputes between labor leaders, where the employer has not been informed of anything but of the strike itself. In the knit goods industry in New York City, the workers were called out and lost a week to date to learn which of two unions had jurisdiction...
Matthew Woll. vice president of the American Federation of Labor, had to call off a strike in a Long Island bronze foundry last week so that a statue of Samuel Gompers could arrive in time to be dedicated by President Roosevelt and the A. F. of L.'s 53rd annual convention...
There were strikes all over the country. Fifteen were shot, one killed when picketers and steelworkers clashed at Ambridge, Pa. Silk mill strikers marched 10,000 strong in Paterson. N.. J. Corset-makers and truck drivers struck in Manhattan. Grape pickers struck in Lodi. Calif. A strike of 10,000 machine tool and diemakers was on in Detroit. In Pennsylvania, 55,000 coal miners were still out (see p. 12). Philadelphia bakers left their ovens. Chairman Wagner of the National Labor Board barely averted a strike by 650 commercial air pilots. A dozen striking window washers pulled...
...asking a great deal of Labor, which contrary to silly reports of selfishness, has not been able, in the larger industries, to raise its individual weekly wages above the regular depression low, even slipping back in those brackets above the minimum wage, to surrender its supposedly guaranteed right to strike into the hands of a board whose impartiality is incomplete and whose first-hand knowledge of conditions is non-existent...