Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maritime Commission as a union-wrecker was made clear by the New York Maritime Council on the eve of Mr. Kennedy's departure : Mr. Kennedy's insistence on mediation & arbitration of maritime labor disputes is a curtailment of the union's right to strike. Arbitration of minor controversies arising out of signed contracts and prohibition of strikes & lockouts (during the duration of the contracts) is now accepted in all N. M. U. agreements. But in settling basic issues like wages, hours and working conditions, the union wants free and untrammeled negotiation. Therefore, to the council, restrictive legislation...
Joseph Stefani, speaking for Locals 112 and 186, told the CRIMSON last night that if the Association persisted, "we'll refuse to work with 'em." Following a vote at a plenary session of his unions, the A. F. of L. majority of cooks and waitresses would strike, he said...
President Conant's plan to restrict the academic profession will be the subject of discussion in a meeting of the Student Union tonight in the junior common room of Winthrop. The question of aid to Loyalist Spain, and plans for the peace strike will be discussed at that time...
...Pasionaria then retired from active direction, leaving the field to President Donald Henderson of the C. I. O. Cannery Workers, who flew from Washington to take charge. For by this time it was apparent that the piddling pecan strike would probably turn out to be a C. I. O. showdown in Texas, where John L. Lewis has yet to make much headway...
From her office at the local Workers Alliance, Emma Tenayuca continued to pull strings with the assistance of her "gang,'' some 300 devoted followers whom she deploys with a masterly hand in picket line or mass meeting. But by week's end the strike had gone into the legal trenches with hearings, investigations, applications for injunctions and loud demands to the Governor for Texas Rangers to enforce civil liberties in San Antonio...