Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were shot fatally, 28 wounded, in a pitched battle between strikers and peace officers outside the gates of the Aluminum Co. of America's fabricating plant in the company town of Alcoa, Tenn. Promptly dispatched to Alcoa were three companies of National Guardsmen. The Alcoa strike was called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate...
...wide, filled with kerosene, which is mounted on wheels or runners and pulled along by a horse at each end. Rising from the back edge of the tank is a screen of tin or oilcloth. At the approach of the "dozer" the grasshoppers leap into the air, strike the screen, fall into the tank. Turkeys are known to be great eaters of grasshoppers but the Department of Agriculture declared last week that even if all the turkeys in the U. S. were concentrated in North and South Dakota they could do little to stem the tide there...
...song Swanee which sold 2,250,000 Victrola records. From 1920 to 1924 he wrote the music for George White's Scandals. The Astaires danced to his Our Nell, Sweet Little Devil, Lady Be Good! From hit shows like Stop Flirting, Primrose, Rainbow, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman...
India's jute trade, which the female Yules abhor, was seriously tied up last February when the native workers in 40 out of 69 burlap mills went on strike. Coaxed back to work in May, they are still sore, may strike again this summer. Majority of these mills are British, but one of the largest and most elaborate belongs to the big U. S. jute twine maker, Ludlow Manufacturing Associates, whose main plant is at Ludlow, Mass. This company, which has been making jute products since the Civil War, now has assets of $25,700,000 and last year...
NIGHT BETWEEN THE RIVERS-R. L. Duffus-Macmillan ($2.50). What a one- night New York City general strike did to the cocktail party of a beautiful interior decorator; dubious political prophecy but pleasant enough melodrama about New York intellectuals...