Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maintaining that the Apex sit-down was "in fact not a strike." the Court continued: "Not even counsel for the defendants condoned their lawless, criminal conduct in this case, but in open court condemned it." Attorneys for the sit-downers contended that "however unlawful their acts were, they were incidental, only a means to an end," and therefore did not constitute a conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce. Said the Court: "This argument overlooks the fact that a strike if lawfully conducted is in itself lawful and its lawfulness now has statutory recognition. There could be no conspiracy under...
...Three weeks ago when the steel strike spread to Pennsylvania, there were clear signs that the public was growing weary of labor strife. Citizens throughout the strike area were beginning to show a decided preference, if not for "law & order" in the vigilante sense, at least for civil peace.-In Michigan, Governor Murphy, who with consummate patience sat out the General Motors strike early this year, had not been able to give his State peace. Instead Michigan had a Chrysler strike, an uproarious labor holiday in Lansing, a battle at the Ford plant, another at the opening of a steel...
Governor Earle stepped in promptly when the steel strike spread to Bethlehem Steel's Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June...
...buckets of blood in putting down the Socialist revolution in Austria. His enemies may question how well balanced George Earle's convictions are, but as a man with strong will to peace and to a fair deal for Labor he was destined to have a hard time when strike trouble spread to Pennsylvania...
...fact that he is also ambitious merely adds to his difficulties. He has yet to face the question of whether he can preserve order in his State without 1) putting Labor in a position where it will inevitably lose its strike or 2) using the power of the State to shut the steel mills at other times than when it can be excused by the necessity of preventing bloodshed...