Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pennsylvania's coal-mining Fayette County heard the tramp of soldier feet last week for the first time since the great strike of 1922. Three hundred guardsmen were marched in under orders from Governor Gifford Pinchot which amounted to martial law. Eight thousand striking coal miners looked on stolidly as a week of petty riots and bloodshed ended in peace, only to flare up again in a rash of nasty fights which spread the general disorder into adjoining counties, stopping work in at least 30 collieries...
...with the striking hosiery workers in Reading, Philadelphia and Lansdale, the issue in Fayette County was Unionization under the National Recovery Act. Focus of trouble was the non-union H. C. Frick Coke Co., subsidiary of the non-union U. S. Steel Corp. Even before the Recovery Act was passed in June, Frick Coke started organizing a company union, told its workers to sign up, picked representatives for them to elect as officers. Simultaneously United Mine Workers began a membership drive among Frick employes. Fortnight ago unionized miners held a protest parade at Maxwell. Deputy sheriffs hired by Frick Coke...
...these labor disturbances paled beside the strikes which last week pock-marked Eastern Pennsylvania. Of the 25,000 workers on strike throughout the U. S., 18,000 were in Pennsylvania. The trouble centred mostly in the hosiery industry as a result of attempts by the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers to complete unionization of the mills. A. F. F. F. H. W. is an alert, enlightened union under smart leadership. During the Depression its members voluntarily took cuts in wages to help "closed shop" employers meet "open shop" competition (FORTUNE, January 1932). But now it was up against...
...Lansdale where the strike began in late June three hosiery plants shut down. Last week one, the Dexdale, tried to reopen. Strikers and their friends gathered outside to block "scabs." Fifty local police turned out to drive off picketers, guard the plant from...
...Columbia last week a beer license was obtained principally because of the fact that in a six-week period patronage fell off so sharply in the John Jay Dining Halls (the cause of the strike last Spring) that further resistance to the Columbia Spectator's editorials would have been suicidal...