Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World, official organ of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago (presided over by George Cardinal Mundelein), appeared the following front-page message: A happy and blessed Christmas to all our readers and a special prayer and word of encouragement to the Hearst employes who are on strike...
...deck; an extra day's stay aboard in Manhattan to avoid U. S. customs and immigration officials. Accused of having sold this sort of stowaway passage to countless European emigrants (nine of whom were uncovered after the Normandie's December 3 sailing was prevented by a crew strike), two French Line sailors this week found themselves in a Havre jail...
That the archfoe of the chain stores should team up with wholesalers did not strike anyone as particularly strange. Mr. Patman's bill to tax chain stores out of existence ($50 to $1,000 per store times the number of stores in a chain, times the number of States in which the chain operates) is due to come up in the next Congress, and chain store merchants have been worried for months...
Since November 1937, the union has had a contract with Mergenthaler's Brooklyn plant. Last month it called a strike to resist a 10% wage cut for 1,600 employes...
...Until twelve years ago his business was hats. One of the best dry-fly fishermen in the U. S., he is descended from an old New Jersey sporting family which owned one of the oldest U. S. men's hat factories. Publisher Connett liquidated the business during a strike, then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies of a sporting book on a hand press at home. When he started The Derrydale Press in 1927, that was the sum of his publishing experience. The name Derrydale he got "from a bottle of whiskey and a map of Ireland...