Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Philip Joseph ("Mac") Magrath, 59, Manhattan's famed fistfighting priest who for 24 years (1907-31) crusaded against waterfront gangs (Hudson Dusters, Tin Can Athletic Club, Pig Alley Sports, Vinegar Hill Gang) with prayer-book and an 8-in. rubber hose vhich, he said, "drops 'em just as quick but doesn't crack the skull"; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In his Catholic Seamen's Mission hung a bold sign: "If you want to know who's boss START SOMETHING...
...into the steel industry." If Leader Lewis had chosen to round out his indictment of the Federation leadership's failure to organize U. S. steel workers, he could have harked back across the dismal years since Steelmaster Henry Clay Frick bloodily crushed the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers at Homestead, Pa. in 1892. Not until 1919 did A. F. of L. recover courage to attempt a campaign in the nation's No. 1 basic industry. Its program was to split Steel's craftsmen among no less than 24 of its craft unions-unions in which...
...tryouts. Last week, Commissioner Moses kept his promise by opening the bridge, which was the only way to reach the stadium, one hour before the meet was scheduled to start therein. In other respects, Chairman Bingham & committee failed to realize their plans. In a dusty little stadium surrounded by tin cans and scraps of lumber, not quite half the expected capacity crowd of 22.000 turned up for the first day of the meet. Until a drenching thunderstorm chased them home, they sat in puzzled silence watching a succession of events run off about as systematically as the potato races...
...impotent Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers, on whose bones John Lewis is attempting to put robust flesh, was one of the strong est unions in the land. As its local's three-year contract with great Carnegie Steel Co. in Homestead, Pa., seven miles below Pittsburgh, drew toward a close, the company proposed that the new contract include a wage cut. The union refused. Famed for his humanitarian statements on the subject of Labor's rights, Andrew Carnegie skipped off to Scotland, left his mills in charge of hardbitten, union-hating Henry Clay Frick...
...city contributed its $25,000,000 worth of halls and stadiums, its unsightly 150-acre dump sprawled along the lake front. Last March contractors began blasting away at frozen ashes, tin cans, bedsprings. In three months 15 miles of paving were laid, huge buildings erected. Exhibitors, paying $4 per sq. ft. for space, moved in their products. When last fortnight Secretary of Commerce Roper drawled a dull greeting into a microphone before a tiny audience, Cleveland suddenly woke up to find its dump converted into a thing of fun and beauty...