Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monroe. Biggest demonstration of public opinion took place at the town of Monroe, Mich., where Newton Steel Co., a small subsidiary of Republic, had been closed by the strike. Pickets held the one road leading to the mill and refused to allow non-strikers to pass. The city election commission polled the mill workers on the question of returning to work. The returns were 856 for, 20 against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened...
...Michigan public opinion was influenced by an incident outside the steel strike proper. A union committee appointed to settle a strike of the Consumers Power Co. obtained an agreement providing a 5? per hour pay rise, a 40-hour week, exclusive bargaining rights for the union, one week a year vacation and two weeks' sick leave, all with pay. When the terms were reported in the power houses early one morning the workers were indignant that they had not got 10? an hour raise. Without warning they pulled the switches, leaving Flint, Saginaw, Bay City with their...
...oral contracts are generally binding. The Labor Board has declared that if an understanding is reached in collective bargaining it must be embodied "in a binding agreement for a definite term." Senator Wagner said last week that the Act (by implication) required written contracts to be made. The steel strike is, however, likely to be over long before that point of law is definitely settled...
...Canton, Ohio, anti-strike sentiment quickened when the chamber of commerce polled 6,465 steel workers by mail. Three clergymen employed to count the returns reported 3,633 votes for returning to work, 216 for continuing the strike, a majority, although 2,516 ballots were cast out as palpable forgeries, not being printed on the same paper or with the same perforations as those mailed...
...protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief so no one would do him harm. Cars abandoned by the pickets were smashed up and shoved into the river by volunteer vigilantes. Such was the first reopening of a strike-closed steel plant...