Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, at a meeting of U. A. W. A.'s sorely riven executive board in Detroit, two "fraternal observers" delegated by Mr. Lewis were on hand. Pointedly informed that the situation had been "discussed" with Mr. Lewis' observers, the board acknowledged that "unauthorized stoppages of work and strikes have resulted in the breaking of contracts with employers and the unemployment of thousands of workers." It also decreed that leaders or abettors of outlaw strikes may be suspended or expelled from the union. But lest congenitally independent U. A. W. A. members suspect a sellout, it pledged that "should...
...reasonably certain that it will do that-but whether it will prove itself the super-plane it was designed to be. U. S. airlines will be watching too, for if DC-4 can do what it promises-carry a big payload cheaply-U. S. commercial aviation may at last strike the quotation marks off "commercial...
...graduation he worked for Glenn L. Martin, then one of the foremost U. S. airplane designers. First he was an engineer, then was put in charge of Martin's Cleveland factory, and finally, at the age of 25, became vice president and chief engineer. When he decided to strike out on his own in 1920, he had saved just enough to feed his family for six months. Within that six months he persuaded a young Los Angeles millionaire named David R. Davis to finance him, and the two of them hung their hopeful shingle (DAVIS DOUGLAS CO.-ENGINEERING DEPT...
Fortnight ago, as the French liner Lafayette lay burning in a Havre drydock. the crew of the French liner Champlain was on strike in the same port. After midnight one night last week, two fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried...
...started last February by William S. Brown, as president of the General Drivers, Helpers and Inside Workers Union Local 544 in Minneapolis, and individually, also by Farrell Dobbs, a member of the union, and the fabulous Dunne brothers, Grant, Miles and Vincent, who led the spectacular truck drivers' strike in Minneapolis in 1934. The plaintiffs are demanding $470,000 for articles in the Daily Worker linking them with the criminal underworld...