Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole but vital aim of last summer's bloody strike had been to win signed bargaining agreements from Republic, Bethlehem, Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel. When strike tactics failed, S. W. O. C. began filing charges with the labor board. Certain that it had a majority of the workers in two Inland Steel plants, S. W. O. C. decided to lodge against this company its most far-reaching complaint: that by refusing to reduce an oral agreement to writing, the company had refused to bargain collectively in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. Last week, Chairman Madden...
...afternoon last week, members of C. I. O.'s Utility Workers Organizing Committee in the Zilwaukee, Mich, plant of the Consumers Power Co. calmly evicted the superintendent and sundry non-C. I. O. workers, manned the gates to the plant and announced they were on strike...
That the "strikers" did not pull the switches but instead carried on as usual without benefit of outside management was at once relieving and disturbing. Here was a strike that was not a strike: the "strikers" were working and the product was being produced. (Whether or not the "strikers" expected to be paid for working while striking was not clear.) Unintentionally, militant Michigan Labor had, in effect, provided an object lesson in bloodless revolution...
...French masses are not easily aroused but soon some 18,000 workers in five factories of Citroën Motors ("The Ford Of France") went on a sit-down strike and, without stating specific grievances, hoisted red flags. While they continued to sit, quarter-hour sympathy sit-downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier...
...putting signs in his windows implying that the dispute was purely jurisdictional. In addition to indignant notices saying that the pickets were C. I. O. while the clerks in the stores were A. F. of L., the union objected to one small, rather plaintive sign in Chinese reading: "No Strike Here...