Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Counsel Joseph Padway thought otherwise, declared in Washington: "The Wagner Act specifically provides under Section 13 that 'nothing in this act shall be construed so as to interfere with, or impede or diminish in any way the right to strike.' The American Federation of Labor will appeal this case...
...elastic interpretation of the 40-hour week by which the working day can be temporarily lengthened, longer hours were ordered for the workmen last week. The 500 employes of the mint, however, decided to tolerate no tampering with their 40-hour week. They began a sit-down strike. Premier Daladier ordered police to clear the mint and to break up a demonstration outside. Then he ordered posted a notice that workers failing to return by early this week would be considered as resigned...
...Manhattan, after threats of a strike, the Hearst Daily and Sunday Mirror signed a one-year contract with the New York Newspaper Guild covering 450 editorial and commercial department employes. Among the provisions: pay increases for 360 employes, no pay cuts during the life of the contract, five-day, forty-hour week, severance...
...distrust of rugged individualistic money-grubbing as dangerously unAmerican. Johnny Case (Gary Grant) becomes the more ingratiating when his ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda relates, as her most embarrassing moment, being arrested for helping to lead a strike against a company in which Seton Sr. is a director. When she has to correct her father for failing to catch her sister's nance's name, she says: "It's Case, not Chase, father-too bad, Chase had such a pleasant banking sound...
...everything but money. Last week, Hollywood decided to make its crowning contribution to strike tactics: 500 invitations went out, signed by Miriam Hopkins. Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas. et al., for a cocktail picket party and promenade in front of the Citizen-News...