Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graves as the result of the battle between pickets and police before Republic Steel Corp.'s South Chicago plant (TIME, June 7). In Chicago a "mass funeral" was staged for three of them by the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. Meanwhile the violence of the S. W. O. C. strike against three big independent steel com- panies-Republic, Youngstown and Inland -subsided. In Detroit, where fortnight ago United Automobile Workers organizers were beaten at the entrance to Ford's River Rouge plant, the fighting shifted to court. On both fronts the combatants took advantage of the lull to maneuver...
...Mahoning Valley, site of several Republic and Youngstown plants, other maneuvers were afoot. Basic strategy of all three steel companies was to sit tight, wait for back-to-work movements to start among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant at Warren, Ohio...
...started by Stockholder Robert W. Northrup of Toledo, who complained that Republic's officers had spent $1,000,000 on arms & ammunition not required in the steel business. "He's crazy," laughed Tom Girdler. But hadn't the company laid in arms in anticipation of a strike? "I wouldn't say in anticipation of a strike and I would say it was some years ago. I never knew a steel plant that didn't have guns and ammunition to protect its property...
Outwardly all was harmony. At no time was the steel strike officially mentioned But the choice of a new leader of the Institute soon narrowed down to Big Steel's Irvin as a representative of the new order and those two hard-bitten foes of organized labor, Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir. For three hours the Institute s directors battled in a secret session frequently punctuated by heat-treated speeches from Mr. Grace. On emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant...
Allied's third big objective, outlined at the convention, is to strike at the "big boys" through legislation to tax theatre chains just as chain groceries are now taxed in Louisiana (TIME, May 31). A model tax bill was presented basing the tax on the number of seats. Above 500 the tax would be 5? a seat, above 1,000 10? a seat, etc., etc. If adopted, such legislation would hurt many members of the Allied States Association,, but, said Al Steffes last week, "big independent chains should be curbed...