Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...branches of the textile industry," stated Sidney Hillman's Textile Workers Organizing Committee in a memorandum explaining the strike, "silk is the most chaotic." That chaos, as most silkmen know, has been the result of an unintegrated industry composed of a few large mills and myriads of minuscule establishments, some of them no more than family shops. The industry's average silk plant has only 68 workers (compared with 296 in cotton mills, 236 in woolens). Shops open and close overnight. And of late a new jobster has cropped up called the converter-an individual or company, often...
When Sidney Hillman's strike opened last week, strange things happened. In its first seven days violence was so slight that for color reporters were forced to describe blackened eyes & scratched faces during a picket v. strikebreakers' brawl at Hazleton, Pa., the pricking of several women with hatpins at nearby Nanticoke. No one was killed, no one was hospitalized. More important than any demonstration was the fact that some employers welcomed the strike as a storm which might settle the dust of disorganization, and others got down to business by forming an association of their...
Before the strike was five days old the new Silk & Rayon Manufacturers Association, at the start representing some 60 manufacturers employing 10,000 workers and "increasing daily," sat down in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania, invited Mr. Hillman to come in for a chat. What went on inside neither Labor's Hillman nor the Association's Attorney & Organizer David Cole would say, but the conference was followed by another next day. And from this session, which lasted until 2 a. m., Mr. Hillman emerged with a smile on his face and a contract in his pocket. First step...
...Pennsylvania, Mr. Hillman's lieutenants were signing similar contracts (about 20) with individual employers not in the Association. By week's end 8,000 workers had got what Sidney Hillman wanted them to get, 5,000 workers had gone back to work, and the "most peaceful, satisfactory strike" in that shrewd labor leader's history seemed to be drawing to a finish as smooth as silk...
...even a Heywood Broun, to the Cause, and in recent years its internal troubles have griped it more than the occasional forays of its students and teachers into areas of labor strife have irritated capitalists. Five years ago two-thirds of Commonwealth's student body went on strike, presumably because the institution's brand of radicalism was not radical enough, and several years later its young Director Lucien Koch resigned to take a job with the NRA as assistant economic analyst in the consumers' division. He was succeeded by a New Orleans Socialist named Richard Whitten...