Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When questioned as to his attitude toward picketing, Lahey, who was the labor writer for the Chicago Daily News said, "In this stage of labor relations violence and the sit-down strike are the only weapons against repression." He brought out the fact that 95 per cent of all sit-down strikes took place in a period when employers were deliberately disobeying the Wagner Act on advice of counsel...
Meantime, U. A. W.'s self-starter began to turn the engine over, putting pressure on motor makers for a 32-hour week to spread-the-work. Result: a strike of 6,000 workers, shutting down Chrysler Corp.'s Plymouth factory in Detroit, and throwing out of work 9,000 Briggs Body Co. workers...
...Fields (Sat. 10 p. m. CBS), sponsored by Lucky Strike, makes his debut as Larsen Whipsnead, who wins a department store in a golf match, loses its business and his composure running...
...different methods used by the propagandists, who deftly adapted themselves to the temperaments of their various peoples, is a real lesson in psychology. For the American people the posters are in the heroic mould. They invariably show a tall, stalwart young man about to strike down a German, at the same time rescuing some helpless woman. For the French, who were bearing the brunt of the suffering caused by the war, a more sentimental style was in order. Their posters usually show war orphans or women weeping over a dead husband or lover. For the Germans and Italians the illustrations...
Oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, author of Why Not Try God?, came out in favor of an international sit-down strike by women to prevent war,* added: "Of course, I know and you know that there is a Utopian weakness in such a scheme." Asked to comment on the international crisis, former Kaiser Wilhelm, who last week varied his daily routine by visiting an Egyptian exhibition at Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, refused to discuss "anything less than 2,000 years old." At a stock sale in Belmont, Ohio, Robert Alphonso Taft, son of the late President, and Republican candidate...