Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening last week Labor's Non-Partisan League held a meeting in Washington's Willard Hotel to support the President's proposal to reform the Federal judiciary. Just beforehand Willard employes staged a sit-down strike and put pickets around the building...
Though his friend Major George L. Berry carried on the meeting-denouncing the strike as an A. F. of L. plot to embarrass him-John L. Lewis refused to cross the picket line, even declined an offer to cross if the pickets were temporarily withdrawn.* Four days later in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, while he was in the midst of a wage conference with coal operators, an emissary interrupted him with the disturbing news that two pickets of the A. F. of L.'s Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis...
Thus did John L. Lewis twice last week obey the instinct of years, refuse to violate that unionist taboo which forbids a union man to compromise himself even in the smallest way where a strike is concerned. In his larger relations with rival A. F. of L., however, last week Labor's Lewis smashed tradition in a big, ruthless...
...Resolved: That the sit-down strike should be reorganized as a legitimate bargaining agency for labor," will be the subject when the Yardling team meets Boston Latin School tomorrow in Boston. Garfield H. Horn, Louis Hariz, and Jacob J. Kaplan will speak for the Crimson team...
Since then, in the face of continual talk of a steel strike, the stock has climbed steadily, crossing par last month. By the start of last week Big Steel had assumed its pristine place as the stockmarket's undisputed leader. Evident it was by now that some people either knew or suspected that a long and costly showdown between the Steel Corporation and the CIO was not inevitable. Sure enough, the announcement soon came that President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel's biggest operating subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel, was conferring with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee...