Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...material: the first half of Morton Thompson's front page column in the Hollywood Citizen-News. The agency: Owner-Editor Harlan Guyant Palmer. Reason: It was so complimentary to virtuous Judge Palmer it brought "unexplainable tears" to his eyes. During a bitter Guild strike five months ago the Citizen-News printed an entire column by Thompson describing "the despicable traits" of Editor Palmer...
WASHINGTON--Two witnesses told the House Committee investigating un-American activities today that Gus Hall, an organizer for a Committee for Industrial Organization Union and former Communist Gubernatorial candidate, directed bombings and other terroristic acts during the 1937 "Little Steel" strike at Warren...
...strike contravened the union's contract for the settling of disputes by negotiation, hence lacked union sanction. Steadfastly L.M.S. refused: 1) to remove Gwilliams, because such action might set a precedent for "further unconstitutional action"; 2) to make him rejoin the union, since intimidation is frowned upon by the Trade Disputes Act. With the odds thus heavily against it the strike last week collapsed. Back to work went the 4,000, each, a week's pay out of pocket. Still on the job was Gwilliams, who through it all had kept his head screwed on, his pence...
...Queen Mary sailed into New York Bay last week with day breaking behind her, no hoarse flurry of twelve tugs fumed out to ease her into her mid-Manhattan berth. For three days the harbor's 300 tugs had been tied up by a strike of 2,000 tug hands, seeking $5 to $10 more a month than the present scale of $3.63 to $5 daily brings them. Last word from Longshore Tsar Joseph Patrick Ryan had been that the Queen Mary would be left standing in the harbor, "a blow to the prestige of the port...
Whether or not Governor Murphy's handling of the 1937 automobile strike was "a great achievement of a great American," as the President enthusiastically pronounced, is really of less importance to the nation than the conduct of the Senate committee. From first to last this committee has brought ridicule on itself and discredit on the practice of legislative investigation by admitting biased personal opinion to dominate its discussions. Shadow-boxing with Communism and Fascism, charges that went to the ultimate of inanity in associating subversive activity with Shirley Temple--this has been the product of what might have been...