Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford strike involved wages and hours of some 3,000 unorganized workers in Henry Ford's Chester, Pa. export assembly plant. Though Mr. Ford has not yet signed the automobile code (which binds him just the same) he pays his men a minimum wage (50? per hour) which is 7? higher than the trade agreement requires. But because of the seasonal peaks and valleys of automobile production, Mr. Ford did not have enough work to run his Chester plant more than four days a week. As a result his men earned only $16 per week. They struck...
...Labor government's minister of education,. Sir Charles Trevelyan, has done at last that which Conservative Labour long feared. A resolution forcing trade union members, the actual backbone of the Labour party, to universal strike in the event of war, will soon be steered by him into Parliament. This will mark the first real test of Labour's genuineness, and its success would imply victory, however belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly...
This brings us, as Castor might remark, to another of the champions who have recommended universal strike as a deterrent to the military. Professor Einstein, speaking at London's Alfred Hall, mentioned many things, among them the necessity for international brotherhood, but nary a word of strike. For only last month the Professor, asked by Belgian friends whether the Nazis would menace Belgium, advised them to leave their university and join the army. This shift in position was loudly applauded by the Hearst editorial writers as a sensible adjustment to circumstance; none the less, the Professor would like to have...
...last week which of the popular, high-priced performers have been able to keep sponsors: Eddie Cantor will clown again for Chase & Sanborn, starting the end of October when Ruth Etting's and Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante's time is up. Jack Pearl will go on with Lucky Strike cigarets, Amos 'n' Andy with Pepsodent toothpaste, Rudy Vallee with Flelschmann's Yeast. Jack Benny this year performs for Chevrolet Motor Co., Burns & Allen and Guy Lombardo for White Owl Cigars, Bing Crosby for Woodbury Soap, Al Jolson and Paul Whiteman for Kraft-Phenix Cheese...
...other Chicago institutions in offering help to 3,600 one-time students of the city's Crane Junior College, closed for economy. They will permit the students to pay their tuition in instalments. Ostensibly in protest against school economies, 1,000 Chicago high school pupils went briefly on strike last week...