Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Servant trouble last week compounded the normal confusions, stinks and noises of the world's biggest hotel. In the vast Chicago stockyards, a strike of C. I. O. stock handlers left 17,000 cattle and calves, 25,000 hogs, 10,000 sheep without service and the Chicago Livestock Exchange without a place to trade. Commission brokers and clerks fed & watered the stranded guests. The Exchange could do nothing for itself but suspend trading on the market where farmers sell (and brokers buy for packers and butchers) 13.1% of the cattle, 17.5% of the hogs, 5.3% of the calves...
...Armour & Co.). Mr. Prince's bawling, squealing, baaing guests might have been unhappy indeed had not Chicago police stood by to protect their white-collar attendants (see cut). Having won an NLRB election among the handlers by 281 to 280, C. I. O.'s union called the strike to speed up contract talk with the stockyard company's Vice President William J. O'Connor and General Manager Orvis T. Henkle. Negro Henry Johnson, assistant director of C. I. O.'s Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee, said the union had been in hot water with Messrs...
...General Strike. Apart from aliens, of whom there are in France on temporary permits or illegally over 3,000,000 persons (i. e., about 7% of all persons in France), French workers ran true to form last week. Their French leaders objected furiously to the recent series of decree laws introduced by Premier Daladier (with parliamentary authority previously voted and to be confirmed or withdrawn by Parliament) mainly for one reason: they claimed, justly in the main, that on their face these laws impose sacrifices which bear more heavily upon Labor than upon Capital. The businessman's side...
...government, signifying Daladier and the Radical-Socialist party, paradoxically conservative; has won a victory, labor, headed by Leon Blum's Socialists and the Communists, has not suffered defeat. The leaders of the C. G. T. announced beforehand that the strike would proceed calmly and without violence; and so it did. Submission therefore, to the army was natural; but what appears significant, it was a surrender to discipline, a sacrifice of labor's closest interests in order to promote the welfare and unity of France as a nation. Events of the last few years have proved the French factions hostile...
...midst of victory it is clear that French government has yet to do its part. While labor has demonstrated its democratic faith, the government through its decree laws, which promoted the strike, stooped dangerously close to dictatorship. Blum is justified in calling a "shadow parliament" and in rebuking Daladier for refusing to convoke the French Parliament. Putting these laws into effect without consulting the people's representatives violated the spirit of democracy. Such uncalled-for methods will no more serve to produce the unity which that country so badly needs than constant rebellion against the forces of rule. When Daladier...