Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week signed by the President: Flood Control ($375,000,000 authorized), vesting power in the U. S. to take title to all projects it wholly finances; Food & Drugs (requiring more detailed labels, forbidding harmful cosmetics, last work of New York's late Senator Copeland); La Follette Anti-Strike breaking (amendments prohibiting interstate transport of strikebreakers); Permanent Postmasters (ensuring 14,500 life jobs); Wages-&-Hours (its Pennsylvania prototype was last week declared unconstitutional-see p. 12); Mt. Olympus National Park...
...called a protest strike, 3,000 men swarmed out of the plant. . . ." The strike was not authorized in the beginning and not called until long after the trouble...
...With reference to the so-called strike. . . . No strike had been called. Earnest Union men had met to discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women-just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific...
TIME has already replaced the Seven Hills in Akron's odorless landscape (TIME, June 27). TIME'S story, otherwise in order, erred in the following particulars: 1) The Goodyear strike was not approved by the local union until after the rioting had begun; 2) The majority of the rioters were apparently not Goodyear workers; 3) Donald Dixon, the 19-year-old who was shot through the kidney, was no striker, but a hospital employe...
Died. Andrew James Peters, 66, one-time U. S. Representative from Massachusetts, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, Democratic Mayor of Boston during its great 1922 police strike; of pneumonia; in Boston...