Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down's first anniversary by sitting down once in the Detroit Cadillac plant, twice in the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, where 14,700 General Motors workers were promptly thrown out of work.* Outlawed by the union, unsupported by officers of the local, the second Fisher Body strike was soon down to something like old times with the Sit-Downers holding a week-end dance in the plant cafeteria...
Feeling the pinch of Recession, the automobile industry has had to pare production schedules, shorten hours. Fisher Body employes in many cases have been working only 24 hours per week, and when layoffs began the shop was apparently ripe for revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued, but the suspension of four of its leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding...
...worried was the U. A. W. high command by the possibility of the current restlessness developing into a general G. M. strike that the full executive committee was summoned last week into emergency session, and John L. Lewis dispatched a personal representative to attend. After an all-night meeting the faction-torn executive committee broke up for breakfast, went groggily to bed. Meantime a U. A. W. underling went out to the Fisher plant, learned that the rebels were under the firm impression that Homer Martin was scared to speak to them in person. Attempting to report this...
...content with having resigned his Presbyterian pastorate and gone to jail in the 1919 steel strike, the late William Mann Fincke* in 1921 gave his 53-acre estate in Katonah, N. Y., with its big colonial farmhouse, to found Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...
...Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists had enrolled last week, will be the encyclicals on labor by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius XI. The school will uphold the right to strike, condemn violence and class warfare, have as instructors Rev. John P. Boland, chairman of New York State's Labor Relations Board. Rev. John Monaghan of Cathedral College, and Bernard J. O'Connell, Manhattan attorney...