Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette report was by no means the last chapter in John L. Lewis' unsuccessful siege of "Little Steel." As far as Mr. Lewis was concerned the strike was still on, except against Inland Steel and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube plants in the Chicago area where Indiana's Governor Townsend had patched up truces. There was heavy rioting last week at Republic Steel plants in Cleveland and in Cumberland, Md. But some of Mr. Lewis' coal miners returned to a Sheet & Tube captive mine last week, and reopening of all captive mines was expected shortly- except those...
...fatally shot in a midnight massacre which will probably get as earnest attention from the La Follette committee as the Chicago affair. Massillon's Police Chief Stanley W. Switter testified that Republic's manager in the Canton-Massillon area, Carl Meyers, had asked him early in the strike "why the hell we didn't take action such as the Chicago police did and put 'em where they belong." Manager Meyers, it appeared, was in a temper, having been inadvertently shot by one of his own company guards...
...days later Mr. Lewis issued a statement from the Steel Workers Organizing Committee endorsed by the United Mine Workers. Said S. W. 0. C.: "The Federal Government throughout this entire situation has not displayed the slightest interest in protecting the rights of the steel workers on strike. . . . Seventeen steel workers have been cruelly and wantonly murdered. Not a single person has as yet been brought to account. . . . Not a single steel worker engaged in the strike has as yet been convicted of any serious offense. Only a few fines have been imposed for minor incidents...
Your description of the Youngstown Steel Strike included a list of weapons picked up by the strikers (TIME, July 5). Among the ones listed was a machete. This same machete was probably the most villainous looking item in the photograph which appeared in a number of papers and in the magazine LIFE...
...late 19205, was called by President Herbert Hoover to undertake national bankruptcy studies for the Department of Justice in 1930. President Roosevelt called him to be chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, later a member of the short-lived Federal Mediation Board for the steel strike. His decision in the Houde case (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), ruling that representatives of the majority could bargain for all employes, has since become the Wagner Act's chief Labor weapon. Wisconsin's new law, suggested by Dean Garrison, may well become equally significant in the philosophy of individual...