Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warehouse, they started something. All told, 121 warehouses were closed, 3,000 of Harry Bridges' 8,000 warehousemen were out of work. More important, the Distributors Association had given a demonstration of employer solidarity more convincing than any that turbulent San Francisco had seen since the 1934 General Strike. So bucked up was Roger Dearborn Lapham, board chairman of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. and new chairman of the employers' strike-born Committee of 43, that he began organizing a permanent employers' federation to undertake collective bargaining and fight the collective labor battle of bosses on as wide...
...Trade unions (which in Britain means associations of employers as well as of workers) enjoy not only a legal status but immunity from charges of "restraint of trade." The famed Trade Disputes & Trade Unions Act of 1927, inspired by the General Strike of 1926, outlaws only strikes by unions in one industry called in sympathy for discontented unions in another industry and calculated to coerce the Government. No union may be sued for a sympathetic strike within a given industry even though it is designed to coerce the Government. Thus, "for ordinary industrial strikes, the immunity of trade unions...
...Leiserson, submit their differences to arbitration? Yes, said Mr. Enochs. No. chorused Messrs. Harrison and Whitney. The National Mediation Board then realized that the dispute needed more sitting on than it had bottom for stopped trying. Labormen Harrison and Whitney promptly prepared to poll their members in a national strike vote...
...much support Leaders Harrison and Whitney will get in their respective strike votes remains to be seen. The ballots will not be counted much before October 1, when the 15% cut is finally scheduled to go into effect. After that, the National Railway Labor Act still has a long string to its bow. The President may appoint a fact-finding commission to report to him within 30 days. Thereupon both parties must preserve the status quo for another 30 days. Unless Franklin Roosevelt chooses to have the nation's most far-flung industry on strike on Election Day, railroad...
...world's record (311.42 m.p.h.) he set on the same course in the same car last November. It could not go down in the record books, however, because the photoelectric timing device failed to register on the return measured mile, and two measured miles are required to strike an average...