Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strike out 'at this stage,' " barked Joe Robinson...
When Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and John Llewellyn Lewis of C. I. O. sealed their historic bargain last March, most observers sighed with relief, assumed that the threat of a great steel strike which had been hanging over the nation for months was ended. They reckoned, however, without Steel's major "independents" - Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, Jones & Laughlin, Crucible, Inland, American Rolling Mill-to whom Big Steel's concession was a shocking betrayal of the industry's traditional united front against unionism...
...were strictly within their legal rights: the Wagner Act requires only bargaining, not written contracts. But S. W. O. C.'s Chairman Philip Murray, determined to win all he could while Recovery and Rearmament were booming steel production to alltime highs, cried last fortnight: "I tell you a strike will inevitably trail in the wake of this maddening policy...
...Laughlin blast furnaces flickered over the tense, expectant faces of thousands of men, women and children massed outside the five-mile-long plant's gates. Sharp at 11 p. m. came the deadline which Jones & Laughlin's C. I. O. unionists had set when they voted to strike unless the corporation signed a union contract. Marching out of J. & L. plants both in Aliquippa and Pittsburgh, the unionists shut down the nation's fourth largest steel producer, threw 27,000 men out of work, started the biggest U. S. steel strike since 1919. Next...
Dudley nicked Byron W. Moser, Jr. '37 for three hits, but seven went down by the strike-out route. The lineups...