Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popular a student base as possible --such at least, was the original intent of the founders. To spread that base the organization must preserve a measure of dispassionate presentation of highly controversial subjects. A successful example of this type of discussion was the recent analysis of the seaman's strike by a labor organizer and a shipowner under Union auspices. It was, in a word, a public forum for free discussion...
...Down Strike, suddenly boomed by the General Motors trouble last December as a new phenomenon in U. S. labor warfare, seemed last week to descend from its peak of the week before (TIME, March 1) almost as rapidly as it had risen. The Sit-Down Strike, as an instrument of Labor policy, was impressively sat upon in many places. It had lost its surprise value as police and employers learned more about combatting it. It was being tried on hard-boiled firms which were not so utterly dependent on public sympathy as General Motors and which could afford to take...
Item: on the vague promise of a job, a horde of unwitting men are assembled, loaded into trucks, locked in. When they arrive at their destination, they discover that they have been taken into a strike town as strikebreakers...
Item: a crowd of strike sympathizers is gassed and machine-gunned by hired thugs...
Thus does Marching Song deal with a sit-down strike in an automobile town called Brimmerton. As will be evident from the partial inventory above of its dramatic materials, it is not a hastily concocted case history of the General Motors strike in Flint (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). It is a proletarian fairy tale in unrelieved black & white. Viewed from within its own wonderland it is vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents...