Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a more notable reopening occurred near Los Angeles, where Northrop aircraft, subsidiary of big Douglas Aircraft, operated again after a seven-week strike. President Donald Douglas had also declared that he was through, and followed up by revealing that the Army had refused to accept delivery of Northrop fighting planes because of "indicated sabotage...
More significant than the quarrel was the method of settlement. Donald Douglas concocted an indigenous plan which he thought would cure a number of labor ills. He offered to rehire the entire Northrop force (1,400) including workers whose layoff precipitated the strike, provided each man would sign an agreement on "conditions of employment." The conditions...
...agree that I will not go on strike or seize company property or occupy company property without authority of the company and will perform my duties in an efficient manner and not indulge singly or jointly with others in 'slowdown' or 'pace-making...
...genuine old-fashioned villain for George Earle to hiss. Coal operators lay their troubles to high taxes and John L. Lewis. More impartial observers lay them in good measure to the coal operators, who allowed the alert oil industry to invade their market after the great anthracite strike of 1922. Almost inevitably, George Earle's commission had come around to that old favorite, the House of Morgan...
...strike binds everybody in the shop to take up the dispute of somebody they are not at all interested in, with the result that union officials have to hastily dig up enough grievances for everybody. ... It also is dangerous to the union because the worker is generally hard-headed enough to size up the dispute from his own standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result...