Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force, there is obviously a limit to this policy, if orderly government, as we know it here, is to go on." "Insurrection!" Despite this solemn warning, the sit-down of 6,000 Chrysler employes rolled on last week along the trail blazed by the G. M. strike. As the deadline approached which Circuit Judge Allan Campbell had set in his injunction ordering the sit-downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket lines and the defiant sit-downers sat tight behind their barricades. Two days later Chrysler followed General...
Cauldron. Rare news last week was a move toward industrial peace, made when Remington Rand's hard-boiled President James H. Rand Jr., after defying a National Labor Relations Board order to reinstate and bargain with 4,000 of his employes who have been on strike since last May (TIME, March 22), visited Secretary of Labor Perkins in Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor...
There were some 60 in Chicago, with the taxicab strike continuing to provide most fireworks. A printers' strike stopped Indianapolis' newspaper presses for over 24 hours. Eleven nearby towns were darkened and service on three interurban lines halted when the Indiana Railroad's shop men and powerhouse walked out. Dead locked with C.I.O. over a demand for more pay, managers of twelve of the big gest downtown department and 5? & 10? stores in Providence moved to forestall sit-downs by suddenly shutting up shop at the height of Saturday and pre-Easter buying, locking out their...
...C.I.O. call for a general strike of all ex cept food and drug stores closed a total of 95 of the city's 1,400 stores. A gen eral strike in the hosiery plants in and around Reading pushed the Philadelphia area's sit-down total above 20. Strongly-unionized New York City was lightly touched by the fever. Determined to stamp it out before it could get a start, police arrested 60 sit-downers in Brook lyn's Jewish Hospital for ''endangering the lives of patients," 100 in a Woolworth 5? & 10? store...
Governor Murphy soon settled the hotel strikes, persuading both sides to submit to arbitration. But uppity bellboys were the least of the earnest Governor's troubles last week. Nullifying the courts, Governor Murphy had averted bloodshed in the General Motors strike, helped bring a peaceful settlement, made himself a national hero. But he had also taught sit-downers that they could safely defy the law, and last week they were showing that they had learned their lesson well...