Word: truckmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Diamond-T is the fastest selling assembled truck. Stewart and Federal are both assembled. "Assembled" is a fighting word in the truck in- dustry because companies that machine most of their own parts look down their noses at the assemblers, terming their own product "manufactured." This incenses the "assembled" truckmen, for the reason that all motor vehicles-trucks, buses and passenger cars-are assembled to some degree. The three leading "manufactured" truck makers...
...excited to speak last week was Director Alfred H. Barr of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Ever since the founding of the Modern Museum six years ago and its liberal priming with Rockefeller funds, its loan exhibitions have been of more & more artistic significance. Last week perspiring truckmen trundled through its ornate marble doors the makings of possibly the most important show the institution has ever held-45 paintings and 46 drawings of the late great Vincent van Gogh. From U. S. museums and private collections Director Barr hopes to borrow almost as many more to round...
...Tvvo and a half months after the Terre Haute strike was "settled," the town was still under martial law last week. Nevertheless a metal plant was bombed. Elsewhere in the U. S. Labor showed its teeth. Following the assassination of a Kansas City truckmen's organizer, all Kansas City building trades unionists called a one-day demonstration strike. More important, 9,000 Gulf Coast stevedores walked out in an effort to force union recognition at New Orleans and raise the general wage scale...
When striking truckmen rioted in Minneapolis last year two special policemen were killed (TIME, June 1934). One night last week another howling, ugly-tempered mob milled around Minneapolis' Flour City Ornamental Iron Co., which strikers from six other local iron plants had been trying to shut down since early July. Inside the plant, where they had worked, eaten, slept for three days, cowered 18 non-union workers...
...trucking is still the province of nearly 300,000 independent trucking outfits. For years Mr. Keeshin has been trying to persuade truckmen to stop cut throat competition, fix rates. Says he : "There simply was not sufficient honor among them to stick together." Like most big truckmen, he finally asked for Federal regulation. Last week Mr. Keeshin was prime proof of the contention that the new Motor Carrier Law, placing trucks under the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Aug. 19), will help both railroads and big trucking companies at the expense of small, hand-to-mouth trucksters...