Word: tampa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in Tampa, Florida, the American Federation of Labor will probably commit suicide. Unless there is a miracle the dominant craft unions will expell the ten unions forming the Committee for Industrial Organization and by this stroke will split off the militant groups which are determined to organize the bulk of the working class. Labor solidarity may go out of the window, but the labor movement is far from being knifed in the back, as President Green of the A.F. of L. claims...
With the campaign controversy over, the nature of the registration thus settled, the beginning of a new controversy raised its head: labor leaders prepared to urge the American Federation of Labor convention next week at Tampa to demand that Congress place the whole old-age pension tax on employers instead of splitting it half-&-half between employer and employe. This they proposed in vain when the Act was originally passed. Now they hope to succeed, being buttressed by the arguments of many Republican employers who before election stirred up resentment against the tax "pay deduction." Since the great majority...
Flushed with the triumph of his great & good friend's return to the White House was John Lewis as he buckled down in Pittsburgh at week's end to map his moves in the other major battle in which he is presently engaged. In Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have...
...versions in Italian were scheduled for Newark and San Francisco. Despite Mr. Lewis' original edict that not a line of his script must be changed, Denver was permitted to transfer the Vermont locale to Colorado and in Detroit the action was laid in a factory district. In Tampa, the play was given in Spanish with the action in Cuba. A fat advance sale in most cities indicated that It Can't Happen Here would get a thorough hearing. In Manhattan speculators were selling tickets at prices above the 55? top until chased to cover by WPAgents...
...vagrant." Again he did not make a highly successful speech because a court refused him an injunction against police interference, because 200 hoodlums with rotten eggs and soft tomatoes blocked his way into the radio station where he was to broadcast. Next he went to Tampa where he had just started to speak from a platform in an empty lot when a dozen hoodlums rushed in, knocked down several of his supporters with clubs and pistol butts, picked up the platform from behind, slid Nominee Browder and platform guests off into the dirt...