Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike was settled after several weeks by Mr. W. O. Briggs himself, who met the strike committee. Meanwhile, some of the strikers' demands had already been met, such as pay for a minimum number of hours to a man asked to report for work, for whom there was no work available...
TIME says, referring to the 1933 strike, that a citizens' committee was appointed to look into Briggs's labor policies with results "by no means complimentary to the management...
TIME regrets and would amend an injustice to the Briggs company through its failure to mention the improvement of Briggs working conditions since 1933. After the strike of that year, President Walter Owen Briggs, a semi-invalid, came out of retirement, overhauled his management. Such disinterested investigators as Dr. Leo Wolman of Columbia University and Whiting Williams of Cleveland testify that conditions today in the Briggs plants, while not the industry's best, do now pass muster...
...assess his 500,000 United Mine Workers $1 each per month for two months. Last week, to build a war chest which would prime the No. 1 U. S. union for any emergency, he announced such assessments. The emergency might be a nation-wide bituminous coal strike, operators having warned last week that they would up the work week from 35 to 40 hours when the current contract expires March 31. Or it might be a steel strike. Some 250 steel company-union leaders rallied at a missionary meeting of Leader Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization in Pittsburgh last...
...Chrysler and others) struck against discharge of ten U. A. W. workers, went back next day with the unionists reinstated, a 5?per-hour pay raise won. In Eau Claire, Wis. 2,000 jobs came to a halt when Gillette Rubber Co. (tires & tubes) was shut down by a strike for better working conditions by employe-members of C. I. O.'s United Rubber Workers. Still idle in Detroit at week's end were 5,000 parts-making employes of Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., 600 of Aluminum Co. of America...