Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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South Carolina. Operatives first walked out of the Brandon Mills at Greenville. Others at Spartanburg, Union and Anderson followed. Complaint was against the "stretch-out" system whereby workers were given increased work without proportionately more pay. A committee of the South Carolina Legislature, headed by Representative Dowell E. Patterson, who is also president of the State Federation of Labor, investigated these strikes and reported : "The whole trouble has been brought about by putting more work on the employes than they can do. . . . In the 'stretch-out' system it is the employe who does the stretching out. . . . The strike...
...months ago the National Textile Workers Union began organizing in this and neighboring mills. Last week they came into the open, called a strike answered by 1,000 Loray workers. They demanded: a $20 minimum weekly wage, a 40-hour (five-day) week, abolition of the "stretch-out" system, a 50% cut in company rents and light rates, recognition of the union. The mill operators refused to recognize the union, damned it as "Communistic." One organizer was George Pershing, representative of the Communist Daily Worker, publicly introduced as General John Joseph Pershing's cousin. With the Loray mill shut...
...Clifford Durant, son of Motor-Financier William Crapo Durant, Norman Church, Joseph Schenck, the Agua Caliente Hotel in Mexico just south of the California boundary, Shell Petroleum, each have similar de luxe Fokkers. Fokker is building five $100,000, 32-passenger, four-motor transports for the Universal Air Lines system. Those will be the largest, most expensive standard ships ever built in the U. S. The Keystone Patrician, too huge to fit into Detroit's Convention Hall, after making a 25,000-mile circuit of the country without a difficulty, costs almost the same amount...
With its main line running from Montreal to Vancouver, with the extent of its entire transportation system, including its Atlantic and Pacific fleets, best indicated by the fact that it has a contract with the British Empire to carry mail from Liverpool to Yokohama, the Canadian Pacific might well advance a claim to "world's greatest" railroad. Its neighbor and chief competitor, the government-controlled Canadian National, has 22,000 miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry...
...Commander, Order of the British Empire. Both played football, Beatty at University of Toronto; Thornton at University of Pennsylvania. Beatty was Canadian Pacific President at 41; Thornton president of the Canadian National Railroad at 41. Both came from railroad offices, not from railroad tracks. Beatty took over a strong system, made it stronger; Thornton took over a sick system and made it well...