Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce Commission. Appropriately the interstate bus drivers went into the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. But interstate bus and truck lines are not yet within the moderating influence of the Railway Labor Act. Result was that with little or no warning, the country last week suffered its first major bus strike. The Railroad Trainmen called out 1,300 drivers on eight Greyhound lines serving 16 States east of the Mississippi...
Negotiations for an initial contract first went on the rocks last October, and the Trainmen issued a strike order. However, the negotiators resumed their seats, the union asking for a uniform contract covering all eight lines involved, the company holding out for wage differentials between the various lines. The unions also wanted a closed shop and wages for drivers boosted from around 3½? per mile to 5?, with a guarantee of 200 miles per day ($11). Last week the company flatly and finally turned down the demands, and the drivers climbed...
...holiday, nine of Greyhound Corp.'s affiliated companies filed one of the most remarkable suits in the history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious to Greyhound-at least for propaganda purposes-that since railroading trainmen...
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 2--The University of Pittsburgh football squad erroneously reported as on "sitdown strike." Members of the Varsity squad decided Saturday night on way back from Durham, N.C., where Duke was defeated Saturday that they would vote down any proposition of post season game. When, on Monday morning, they were asked to vote, they decided against participation...
...Louis two months ago, Washington University offered a course in collective bargaining. That its course did not give all the answers, however, was evidenced the same day when 39 university janitors and maintenance workers went on strike, demanding union recognition, higher pay, shorter hours. Fuming professors dusted their own desks until strikebreakers were brought in. Strikers picketed the university and its football games. Fortnight ago the St. Louis Central Trades and Labor Union placed the university on its ''unfair" list. Teachers Union members, who belong to the American Federation of Labor, continued to walk past the picket lines...