Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Historic to Labor was the case of the Danbury Hatters. In 1902, A. F. of L.'s United Hatters of North America called a strike and instituted a nationwide union boycott against D. E. Loewe & Co. of Danbury, Conn, (still a hatting centre...
...sustain a suit against Branch No. 1 ("on behalf of itself and all its members"), as well as against President William Leader and three other union officers, Apex had to prove that union officials actually directed the strike. Apex's President William Meyer testified that after strikers had beat him, swart, big-beaked Bill Leader appeared and asked : "Now will you sign a closed shop agreement...
...Leading off for the defense, Bill Leader conceded that no more than 100 of Apex's 2,500 employes attended the meeting at which a strike was authorized. (Long after the strike, Apex signed a closed-shop contract when the union proved that it had enrolled a majority...
...that the damages asked by Apex would surely sink Branch No. 1 (whose income is $175,000 to $180,000 a year in dues from 15,000 members), Defense Attorney M. Herbert Syme tried hard to establish that the union's officers did not authorize or direct the strike. But before Apex had finished its story, District Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick solemnly observed: "I think that there certainly has been established a prima facie case that the union authorized, maintained or adopted a sit-down strike...
...Strike At Father Coughlin...