Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because without the longshoremen no general strike comparable to San Francisco's War of 1934 can break out, this was good news at the Golden Gate, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, many a lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event...
...Coast maritime boss, entered the U. S. legally in 1920, twice applied for first citizenship papers, twice allowed his application to lapse. For Harry Bridges, this was a serious mistake. By the time he made a third application in 1936-two years after San Francisco's bloody General Strike-Secretary Perkins was besieged with requests to deport Australian Bridges as an undesirable alien. This year the hue has been raised still louder by Congressman Martin Dies's Committee on UnAmerican Activities, whose chairman claims that Bridges is a Communist. Secretary Perkins says she is awaiting a Supreme Court...
...leading the parade. The two Italo-Americans joshed each other about their 1939 world's fairs. Mayor LaGuardia said: "I always feel at home in San Francisco and now I'll feel like I am in San Francisco when I get home. . . . The teamsters have gone on strike in New York...
...They differ concerning Hollywood's financial rewards. Hart believes they could make more money there than on Broadway, but prefers to forego it because he loves the theatre. Rodgers feels that a Hollywood income may be more certain but that only in the theatre can musicomedy writers really strike...
...Schlink and Kallet began a beautiful friendship in 1928 when both were working for American Standards Association; made it pay in 1933 by co-authoring a best-selling expose of advertising fakes and frauds (100,000,000 Guinea Pigs); ended it in bitterness in 1935 when Kallet backed a strike of technicians and office workers at Schlink's Consumers' Research. Inc. Kallet resigned as C. R. secretary, started Consumers Union of United States, Inc., aided by other C. R. experts who had been fired or quit. Since May 1936, when C. U. published its first bulletin...