Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the toughest half of the double-header strike in steel and coal out of the way, the U.S. turned optimistically to idle soft-coal fields. John L. Lewis, who had been waiting for steel and the Steelworkers to settle, was expected to have his 380,000 United Mine Workers back in the pits in short order...
...Surrender. Hotheads along the riverbank cried that the ground had been "salted," began talking wildly of seeking someone to lynch. But who? Nobody had gained by the strike but the bush pilots, and none of the gold seekers believed a bush pilot was capable of such villainy. Some guessed the brass had come from the fittings of a Yukon River steamer, the worn gold from a forgotten prospector's cache. But geologists announced that bedrock at Fishwheel was 200 feet down and that all gold was bound to sink. Nobody solved the mystery. The boom collapsed. Disgusted men began...
...atmosphere was informal. In the corridors of Jefferson County's big stone courthouse, the gossip and laughter were loud. There were strike-idled coal miners and old men who shave only once every three days and carry canes. Klansmen posed for pictures smiling broadly, friend-ly-like. Inside the courtroom, mild old Judge Robert J. Wheeler fingered his speckled white mustache. Occasionally he spat delicately into his cuspidor...
...publishers refused, and the I.T.U. struck. To test the legality of the printers' policy, the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Chicago Newspaper Publishers Association filed separate suits against the I.T.U. before the National Labor Relations Board. Last week, six weeks after the Chicago publishers had won the strike (TIME, Sept. 26), the NLRB unanimously ruled that the "conditions of employment" were illegal. They were, said the board, a "bargaining strategy... to effect the exclusion of non-union men, squarely in conflict with the [Taft-Hartley] Act." The board ordered the union to stop discriminating against non-union...
...million in the 1948 quarter was the biggest in corporation history. In expectation of an extra dividend, G.M. stock rose to a new 1949 high of 68. But General Motors' President Charles E. Wilson and Chrysler's President K. T. Keller both warned that the steel strike had hurt even if it should end this week...