Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There 10,000 strike sympathizers assembled, heard Van Bittner of S.WT.O.C. cry: "They say in Monroe they want to protect their homes. We don't want to destroy their homes. . . . But by God they'll pay for what they did at the Republic Steel Corp. We are going to make those hoodlums in Monroe just as decent as any other American citizens...
Governors. The growth of anti-strike sentiment in Michigan was a blow to union hopes. Strike Leader Bittner let it be known that $1,300,000 had already been spent on the steel drive. The union had won a point when Mayor Burton of Cleveland revoked Republic's permit for use of the airport from which planes had provisioned its strike-bound plants in Ohio. It hoped to have non-strikers ousted from those plants by appeals for enforcement of sanitary regulations forbidding the use of mills as living quarters. In Chicago, however, Republic got around a similar maneuver...
Union leaders still hoped to close the operating mills by strikes shutting off their ore supplies from Michigan, their coal supplies from Pennsylvania and by having automobile workers refuse to use the steel sheets from such mills as Newton Steel. The apparent trend of public opinion in the steel towns not only embittered union men but indicated that attempts would soon be made to open other plants besides the one at Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight...
Already Mr. Lewis had broadened the steel front by calling a strike in Bethlehem Steel's Cambria Mill at Johnstown, Pa., to cooperate with a strike which Railway Brotherhoods called on a little ten-mile railroad owned by Bethlehem and connecting its plant with the Pennsylvania Railroad. Boss Lewis proceeded to broaden the front still further by calling strikes in 17 coal mines owned by Republic, Youngstown and Bethlehem. The war which the Governors hoped to settle was getting bigger and uglier by the hour, yet up to them to settle it remained. For from the White House came...
Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...