Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Oshawa strike had lasted through 16 days of negotiation it ended in the workers winning a 44-hr, week with very slightly higher pay-and in a most curious agreement. Since neither their employers nor "Mitch" would treat with any workers affiliated however remotely with C. I. O., and since all the strike leaders by this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn...
Employer Max Fleischer whose Popeye does most of his heroic feats on spinach alone, hired other help, refused to accede to strikers' demands. All summer the strike dragged on, marked only by such minor incidents as an abortive attempt by picketers to float propaganda balloons up past the studio windows, by the arrest of a few female strikers on such charges as shin-kicking, biting a police sergeant in the arm. In metropolitan theatres loud-lunged claques greeted the appearance of Fleischer cartoons with resounding boos. Fortnight ago C.A.D.U. announced that 13 cinema theatre circuits, including more than...
Union threw in their hands, went on strike. Said one of their picketing placards: "We can't get much spinach on salaries...
...important fronts: 1) the United Press, where the Guild began an intensive campaign to roll up a majority in the employe representation vote about to be conducted by the National Labor Relations Board: 2) the 95-year-old Brooklyn Eagle, where 305 editorial and business office Guildsmen are on strike in the first major test of Guild power in New York...
...Monsignor Francis Joseph Haas. Monsignor Haas has since 1933 served on the NRA's Labor Advisory Board, the National Labor Board, the National Committee on Business & Labor Standards, WPA's Labor Policies Board. He has been surpassed only by Edward McGrady as a mediator in strikes, serving notably in the Minneapolis truckmen's strike of 1934, the Tampa cigar strike of 1935. Said he: "I can sense the trouble in a labor dispute just like an old family doctor who comes into the sick room, sniffs the air and says. 'Measles...