Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt had labor trouble on his hands. It came to him in the form of a delegation of hosiery workers bearing a somewhat questionable piece of persuasion, an unexploded gas bomb used in a recent Reading, Pa. strike...
Labor v. Labor. "There will be no violence," promised Governor Murphy when he entered the strike as mediator last week. "The day of violence in labor disputes has passed in the United States." Same day in Cleveland, pickets tried to keep a Fisher Body manager out of his plant. When police tried to clear a path, an officer was knocked down, two picketers were hurt and bruised...
Three days later violence flared up in Governor Murphy's State. In Flint's Chevrolet assembly plant, non-union workmen faced with loss of their jobs because of the strike listened resentfully to the voice of a U. A. W. organizer blaring from a loudspeaker at union headquarters across the street. As shifts were changing someone smashed the amplifier, caused a general scuffle. Heads were banged and two U. A. W. men landed in jail. That night 200 unionists demonstrated in front of the lockup, were routed by tear gas. Again in Flint rival groups clashed in front...
...called strike at General Motors is not one strike, but a collection of strikes, some of which have been in progress many weeks and others of which have started only since about the turn of the year. Many of those strikes do not seem to have been called in any regular fashion by submitting the question to a secret ballot of Union members. In several plants a few employees seem to have started the strike by the "sit down" method, thus stopping the flow of work and preventing the rest of the plants from working. Apparently, this was true...
...basis for conference. The company is demanding that the "sit down" strikers evacuate its plants before it negotiates with the Union The Union demands guarantees that the plants will not be operated or that the machinery be moved elsewhere. The company is probably glad to see a delay in striking negotiations because it believes that the real-strikers among its employees are relatively few and that prolonging the shutdown will make the strike and the Union unpopular with most of the employees. The Union leaders would probably welcome an opportunity to start negotiations at once because that would strengthen their...