Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed, liberal State Labor Code of 1931 and its Little Wagner Act of 1937, which Joe Padway helped to draft. Having yet to emasculate Mr. Padway's State Labor Relations Act, Wisconsin's newly conservative Legislature last week made over the Labor Code, curtailed the right to strike or picket, and reopened the way for court injunctions in Labor disputes...
...profits, but after 1907, when he was elected alderman, politics was his real profession. In 1912 he sold Klenke the rest of the smithy for $7,000, and with a man named Madden went into the trucking business, fattening on city contracts for snow, garbage, rubbish removal. After a strike by the city's truckers, they made $10,000 in six weeks. In 1913, Hines became chief clerk of the board of aldermen...
University Hall officials confirmed in a written contract yesterday the preferential shop and higher wage agreement, conceded kitchen workers two weeks ago to avert a general strike in the dinings halls...
Organizer Joseph Stefani revealed last night that since the truce on March 15 between the University and 400 strike-hungry employees the union membership had swelled substantially. "As far as the cooks are concerned, we have automatically a closed shop." He said that enrollment in the waitresses' local was rapidly nearing 100 per cent of those on Harvard's payroll...
Recent threats by waitresses in the House dining halls to strike will become little more than a bad dream this afternoon when representatives of the Union and of the University sign a new contract granting a preferential shop to the A. F. of L. This afternoon...