Word: truckmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oldsters thought back twelve years and conceived A. & P.'s exodus as not improbable. They recalled another truckmen's strike in Jersey City, N. J. that closed A. & P.'s warehouse and distributing station. They stayed closed, their activities were transferred to Manhattan. The Hartford family who own A. & P. almost as securely as Henry Ford owns his business, are equally capable of taking drastic action. While the National Labor Relations Board summoned them and the unions to Washington, with a six-point peace plan offered by the Cleveland Regional Labor Board up for discussion, packers were...
Minneapolis. Truckmen who struck in May for union recognition and killed two special policemen before they compromised with employers struck again last week, 6,000 strong. This time their demands were for higher pay and the right to have their union speak for "inside workers'' as well as the actual drivers of trucks. Pay might have been compromised but the question of representing inside workers was a sticking point. After two days peaceful picketing during which only milk, ice, beer, bread and fuel were delivered, wholesale merchants demanded police convoys to resume food deliveries. A picket truck blocked...
...zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf!" it cried at the threat of a bloody steel strike...
...spectacle?" After two ugly days for Toledo, the son of a onetime President appeared on the scene-Charles P. Taft II, commissioned by the Department of Labor as mediator in the strike. Minneapolis. Month ago Minnesota's blatant, Radical Governor Olson wrote a letter to Minneapolis' truckmen urging them to unionize to protect their NRA rights. They unionized and struck. Businessmen realized that, if the truckmen won, practically the whole city would go closed shop, because no non-union construction or other business could survive if truckmen refused to make deliveries. Employers were already well organized...
Cheek by jowl with the opposing roads was American Trucking Association, at whose business store-door service was squarely aimed. The Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York last week hotly wired President Roosevelt: "We are not opposed to store-door . . . service as a principle but ... we feel that no railroad should be permitted to claim unproved economies in justification of performing a service for nothing, or at an uneconomical charge, to the complete destruction of the local trucking industry. . . . Obviously this contravenes practically every alleged purpose of the National Industrial Recovery...