Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week: "I cannot speak for the other railroads*, but as far as the Baltimore & Ohio is concerned I can say that we have never attempted to regulate the price of coal." Green on Injunctions. The United Press invited President Green of the A. F. of L. to write on strike injunctions. He wrote: "The American Federation of Labor and its 4,000,000 members have become alarmed at the action of certain judges. . . ." He cited injunctions written by Judges Schoonmaker and Langham of Pennsylvania, who viewed Labor Strikes as restraints of trade. He cited the Clayton amendment to the Sherman...
Whether or not they know what the Industrial Workers of the World* are all about, the soft coal miners of Colorado have been listening to I. W. W. organizers since last summer when the "Wobblies" engineered a "sympathetic" strike in behalf of the late anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti. Colorado mine operators discountenanced the comparatively conservative United Mine Workers some time ago, introducing company unions to replace branches of the A. F. of L. subsidiary. Wages having been depressed below the Jacksonville scale, the I. W. W., one of whose favorite phrases is "Yours till the next big strike," saw a chance...
...Aguilar conference filed notice of a strike with the Colorado Industrial Commission, as required by law. The Commission investigated the conference and pronounced it unrepresentative of all the coal miners of Colorado. The conference offered to submit its demands to a referendum of all the miners at mass meetings. Then the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co.'s company union, and other local labor bodies, discharged from their ranks all I. W. W. sympathizers. The Industrial Commission pronounced the I. W. W. an outlaw organization and its proposed strike illegal...
...Walsenberg, Colo., where are the state headquarters of the I. W. W., members of the Chamber of Commerce, with the mayor's authority, raided the I. W. W. office. "Smalltown imitation Fascisti," sneered the I. W. W. The next day, Oct. 16, meeting at Pueblo, they called their strike...
...strike "took." Some 4,000 men walked out at once. Some 3,500 joined them later. The I. W. W. took great care to use peaceful methods. Weapons were forbidden. U. S. flags, usually carried by children, headed their processions. Women joined the marches to mines which were still operating, notably a Mrs. Santa Bernash of Trinidad, whose most famed exploit was scratching and rumpling some guards who tried to detain her at a bridgehead near Ludlow.* Her followers pitched two of the guards into Bear Creek. She was arrested, jailed, and to take her place at the marching picketers...