Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreement has been reached under the terms of which the Union agrees to end the strike. The signing . . . at 11 a. m. . . ." Before he could finish his statement flashlights were popping, newshawks were rushing out to put the news on the wires. After eight days of almost uninterrupted negotiation in Detroit, the six-week strike, which had paralyzed General Motors and kept 135,000 men out of work, was over...
...agreement stipulated: 1) the Union would call off the strike; 2) General Motors would recognize the Union as collective bargaining agent for its members; 3) both sides would behave peaceably- no coercion, no Union recruiting on company property, no more court action by the company; 4) both sides would begin negotiations this week on the grievances of the Union, and production would be resumed at once...
...agreement say about the Union's original demand to represent all General Motors workers. Mr. Lewis was obliged fortnight ago to back down from that flat demand. By the terms of the actual agreement he gained virtually nothing that he could not have had when the strike began. But with the agreement went a letter from Mr. Knudsen to Governor Murphy, saying...
...part of other groups for the purpose of weakening this particular union. . . . We hereby agree with you that within a period of six months from the resumption of work we will not bargain with or enter into agreements with any other union or representatives of employes or plants on strike in respect to ... matters of general corporate policy . . . without first submitting to you the facts of the situation and gaining from you the sanction of any such contemplated procedure as being justified by law, equity or justice toward the group of employes so represented...
...held their peace. Not so William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, long on the defensive against Mr. Lewis and his C. I. O. Said he: "So far as recognition of the Union is concerned, the situation is practically the same as it was before the strike was called. As regards the closed shop principle, the defeat is complete." "Then you consider it a defeat?" asked a newshawk...