Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puny but ambitious mine union should not be allowed to poach on his preserves-thereby endangering the solidity of U: M. W., the keystone of C. I. 0. And if Miner Lewis sought a showdown in the form of costly last ditch strike the security of U. M. W. and C. I. 0. would be equally endangered...
...coal. The trains, like most U. S. industry, would not rumble much longer unless John Lewis and the operators agreed on a new labor contract. Unless 460,000 miners went back to work in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, 22 other coal-bearing States, there might be such a strike as the U. S. has not seen in the days of Franklin Roosevelt...
...information and supply to the tutors. As a vast extension of the previous rule regarding scholarship holders, it has decreed that no students shall be employed by the Massachusetts Avenue schools. This rule will be a vital link in Harvard's chain of action. In itself, it will strike a heavy blow at the tutoring bureaus--just how stunning the proprietors alone know. It must be enforced; and a cooperative attitude from the students, together with ruthlessness on the part of University officials are capable of doing this...
...lines to increase wages and prefer union men for jobs. Because 14 other companies were willing to dicker, their tankers continued to run without hindrance and the Atlantic Seaboard faced no oil shortage comparable to that threatening in coal (see p. 18). For most people, a surprising piece of strike news was that tankers comprise 24% of the U. S. Merchant Marine. Standard Oil of New Jersey with 72 ships (total cost about $70,000,000) operates 17% of U. S. tankers, with its foreign fleets controls 13% of the world's tanker tonnage...
...national director of the Writers' Project was accused by one of his erstwhile supervisors of inspiring a sit-down strike in which some 200 literary WPA-sters seized and held the writers' headquarters in Manhattan...