Word: truck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Governor Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, his patience exhausted, turned up Minneapolis' skirts and spanked her because she stubbornly refused to settle her three-week-old truck drivers' strike. His authority to spank grew out of his declaration of martial law for the city a fortnight ago. The spanking took the form of an order sweeping from her streets all trucks except those bearing milk, ice, bread, fuel, newspapers, cinema films and necessities of life...
Wails and smiles greeted his order. For days the Governor had been trying to manage an unmanageable situation. Last May Minneapolis' first truck strike was "successfully" settled by a compromise. It broke out again when the union accused the truck owners of "chiseling" on the settlement, demanded the right to represent not only drivers and helpers but "inside workers" as well...
...most of their employes, that the union leaders forced a standing vote on the strike with thugs on hand to knock the head off any one who dared to vote against it, that Communists, radicals and unemployed were all made union members and turned loose as marauders against trucks. To Labor's charge that 50 pickets were shot in the back, employers retorted that only one was an actual truck driver, the rest toughs and radicals...
...Scab trucks are operating with military permits in ever-increasing numbers. Despite all his harsh words directed at the employers, Governor Olson directs all his harsh blows at the union and the strike." Governor Olson, who loves to proclaim his radicalism, found that martial law was gaining him no kudos with Labor. Finally he issued an ultimatum that unless the employers came to terms he would stop all truck movements. He kept his word. The strikers were delighted that troops should do their work of stopping truck movements. The employers bitterly demanded an injunction from the Federal District Court forbidding...
...blaze life savings of $2,400 and the deed to his farm. Flames ignited his clothing, sent him dashing to a creek. Badly burned, he was dragged from the creek by a neighbor who started to drive him to a hospital. On the way they collided with a truck, wrecking the car. Next morning Farmer Storms died. Said Jennie Quackenbush: "Will Storms' death does not concern me in the least...