Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Early in April, notices of a 10% wage-cut were posted in the textile mills of New Bedford, Mass. Out walked the workers. Last week, the eleventh of the strike, the signs were still posted. Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall...
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...
...porters tried last year to get action by the Interstate Commerce Commission. But the I. C. C. declined to interfere, having no authority to intervene in a wage controversy. The strike order, issued last week, was calculated to obtain action from the U. S. Board of Mediation, which is empowered to decide when an "emergency" exists in the U. S. transportation world and to request the President to appoint an emergency investigating commission. But last week the Board found no "emergency" in the porters' threat, presumably because the Pullman Co. announced that its service would be impaired...
President William Green of the A. F. of L. was the one who advised the porters to postpone their strike "for obvious reasons." He sympathized, hoped they would win ultimately...
Citizens could understand the wisdom of averting a Pullman-porter strike at a time when hosts of potent politicians were boarding overnight trains for Kansas City and Houston...