Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the results of the vote of more than 40,000 Pacific Coast maritime workers announced yesterday and showing huge majorities in every port in favor of accepting the new wage and hour agreements, the costly, 97 day old shipping strike is at last over. It has been estimated that the strike cost over $7,000,000 a day, in losses to both employers and employees, and the loss to the general public, not only of the Coast cities, but all over the country, is inestimable...
Although details of the settlements which employees voted to accept are not yet available, it is known that beyond a wage increase, the basic demands of Harry Bridges, alien strike leader of the Coast, were not granted. Those demands were, of course, the now familiar request that his particular organization be granted the complete monopoly of furnishing men to the shipping companies. Mr. Bridges is not desirous of having his organization, the Maritime Federation, which includes all grades of seamen from cooks to mates, assume the responsibility for the safety of the passengers and cargoes. He is perfectly willing that...
...Bridges were in any way sincere in his protestations of having the "interest of the working man at heart", he would have been willing to arbitrate the simple matter of wage and hour adjustments back in October when the strike began. The ship owners were then ready and cager to sit down with the Maritime Federation and discuss adjustments in the then existing working agreements which expired in October...
...growth of the labor union as the prime tool of industrial racketeers. The technique of industrial racketeering, he has discovered, is simple, standardized. A racketeer gets control of a union, or a union leader turns racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City's, a strike is a paralyzing weapon. After a few samples, the mere threat of strike is usually enough to keep businessmen in line. The racketeer employs sluggings, bombings, window-smashings as supplementary discipline. But he shrinks from murder, resorts to an occasional killing only to prove that he means business. Hand in glove...
Moving with all the precision that will be required to end the General Motors strike, minions of the Maintenance division quietly removed the door from University A, lock, offending slot, and all, and took it to their laboratories for study...