Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten that night in Manhattan 18 years ago this week. For although he was not to become Actors Equity Association's president until ten years later, that night was Equity's coming of age, and Frank Gillmore was even then Equity's guiding hand. The strike spread to eight hinterland cities, closed 37 houses, kept 16 others from opening, cost producers & actors $3,000,000, lasted 30 days. It was Broadway's one big strike and still is the Theatre's one big Labor milestone. When it was all over Actors Equity emerged a victorious...
...Petrillo's plan, gave a special committee 30 days to prepare the attack. Last week President Weber called representatives of radio, cinema and record companies to deliberate with A. F. of M. officials in Manhattan, made sure they would come by threatening a nation-wide musicians' strike August 14 in case the parley failed...
...nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor group in the country,* Weber's threat of a walk-out all over the U. S. was no idle boast. Radio officials asked for, and got, two additional weeks to deliberate. As the deadline drew close, promises of strike support from locals as far away as San Francisco flooded his office...
...expected, Tom Girdler's Republic Steel made the worst showing in "Little Steel.* The strike centred on Republic, as the official release from the Girdler office understated it, "because of its determined efforts to carry on operations." Earnings in the June quarter were only $487,000, as against $5,500,000 in the preceding quarter and $2,600,000 in the June quarter, 1936. Embattled Youngstown Sheet & Tube managed to clear $2,000,000, off 20% from the June quarter the year before and considerably less than half what it made in the March quarter this year. Bethlehem Steel...
...Relieved was the rest of the industry last week when Henry Ford took the initiative, boosting prices on certain models $15 to $35. *Republic strike losses may not be over. Suits for $220,000 damages were filed last week against the company and three of its employes by two men wounded and the estate of one man killed in the Massillon massacre and by the estate of another killed in Youngstown...