Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone in San Antonio knows about little Emma Tenayuca, a slim, vivacious labor organizer with black eyes and a Red philosophy. She first shone in her native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital...
Last week La Pasionaria de Texas was up to her small ears in a pecan pickers' strike. In a good year San Antonio's 147 pecan shelleries shell 21,000,000 lb. of pecans.* No successful machine has ever been invented to pick pecan meat from pecan shells and the "world's largest pecan shelling centre'' depends upon the family labor of Mexicans and Tex-Mexes (U. S.-born Mexicans). Wages were recently cut from (7? per lb. to 6? for halves, from 6? to 5? for broken pieces -which means that a pecan picker...
...pecan pickers took their troubles to Juan Lopez, a naturalized Mexican priest, with strong C. I. O. sympathies. With Father Lopez" approval the International Pecan Shellers Union (a San Antonio local of C. I. O. Cannery Workers) called a mass meeting to plan a strike. Into the meeting to steal the show completely marched Emma Tenayuca. La Pasionaria's Communism was too much for Father Lopez, and he retired from active direction. Not more than 1,000 of 11,000 workers, struck. Soon pickets were parading with signs reading, "El Padre Lopez es un mat Católico...
...argument in Langdell Court room centered around the appeal of a factory owner for an injunction ordering sit-down strikers to evacuate a factory when the strike resulted from a breach of a collective bargaining agreement by the employer...
Among the amendments voted by the house were provisions prohibiting coercion of non-striking workers by strikers, and outlawing the sit-down strike as a labor weapon. Another measure adopted granted employers to "petition the NLRB for an election to determine the collective bargaining unit in his plant...