Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking at the issues in the French general strike, which according to most reports failed in its attempt to stop all economic activity for one day, is like facing mud puddles. It is difficult to determine whether the opposition of the "Confederation Generale du Travail" to Premier Daladier's thirty-two decree daws, one of which suspended the forty-hour week, represents' a struggle between labor and capital or between anarchy and order. Or, whether the conflict is one between communism and fascism, or communism and democracy. The French themselves are as much confused as observers here and abroad; every...
Last year Pittsburgh had a sit-down strike against post-season games; this year its Freshman team was incensed at the lackadaisical manner in which their tuition was cared for. Now the college wants to go simon-pure. At Notre Dame an enterprising student recently issued a pronouncing gazeteer so that the public might become better acquainted with the far-flung "fighting Irish." But Mr. Hutchins says that only a handful of students are in big-time college football; Notre Dame combats this by acquiring plenty of players. They used eighty-eight men in one game, four Irish and eighty...
Success in the Georgian Cafeteria strike was celebrated at a Student Union Labor Committee meeting held in the Phillips Brooks House on Saturday at 12 o'clock. Ernest J. Simmons '26, assistant professor of English, and president of the Teachers' Union, was among the speakers...
Simmons was much pleased with the results of the strike. He commented: "The student activities were excellent experience for the committee members in studying actual union relations...
Joseph Stefant, secretary of Local 136, spoke on the concluded terms of the agreement and gave the running history of the strike. Arthur Mason, representative of the workers, thanked the Student Union for their aid in effecting the victory of the cafeteria's employees. He welcomed the event as a stride toward cooperation between town and students...