Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strikes in the nation's silk mills usually raise a far louder racket than the whirring spindles and clattering shuttles which stop because of them. Feuds between employe and employer have almost always been bitter, sometimes bloody. Ever since last May, when energetic little Sidney Hillman, able, Lithuanian-born chief of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, April 19), commenced drawing textile workers into C. I. O., signing up man after man in mill after mill, many a bystander wondered what would happen to whom when Mr. Hillman chose to call a strike, 1937 model. Last week, in throwing & weaving...
...months ago the Government intervened to end a 13-day, nation-wide strike, commissioned a group of experts to study the financial condition of the $500,000,000 foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50% of national production, and Standard Oil of New Jersey's Huasteca subsidiary, make wage increases and establish other workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. The report called for establishment of the 40-hour week, increase of the minimum wage to 4.90 pesos ($1.38) a day, and setting...
...Champion was well convinced that he was going to be a great painter. Encouraged in this ambition by his widowed mother, Herrie also got an encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie's part in the strike ended when...
...guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike staged at exercise time in the yard by convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies are criticized by the prison board. He wins a tentative endorsement of his method of selecting men for work on the road gang...
...President Bradey, whose vacationing this summer has been limited to Sundays with his family in their Ontario cottage, figures that if only 7% of Hupp's faithful owners buy the new car the company will break even on a production of about 1,500 cars a month. A strike is the last thing he looks for from Hupp's prospective 1,200 workers, believing that unionized or not they will "stick with us and help get Hupp going...