Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was the situation when Franklin Roosevelt at last intervened. To Spokesman Charles O'Neill for the operators, John Lewis for the miners, the President issued a polite ultimatum: they were plainly in agreement on the principle of union hiring; let them within 36 hours settle the technicalities, start digging coal. Back in Manhattan the two sides were still wrangling when the time limit set by the President expired. Early in the morning as the meeting broke up U. S. Conciliator John Roy Steelman issued a statement: ". . . As Government representatives, we are asking that such companies and associations...
Miners and operators alike knew what this meant: Franklin Roosevelt not only endorsed John Lewis' demands for a union shop*but invited operators and their district associations to break ranks, sign as a public duty. If they refused, the Administration would back John Lewis in the resultant...
Samuel Augustus Maverick signed Texas' declaration of independence, fought in its war with Mexico, served in its Congresses, helped it join the Union. Just 100 years ago this month he was sworn in as second mayor of what is today the nation's southernmost big-little city, then the cow-town of San Antonio...
...House of Commons Prime Minister Chamberlain assured the Soviet Union that any Russian guarantees given in Eastern Europe would not be expected to be operative until the British and French marched-in other words, that Britain and France would not leave the Soviet Union holding...
...Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles. The Führer, it was said, had promised Poland a cut in a Nazi dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Although no written agreement resulted from the Potemkin visit, Polish-Russian affairs were left friendlier than they had been in many a year. With the breakdown of a Polish-German commercial agreement expected, Polish-Soviet trade will probably grow. While Poles were still suspicious of aid from Red Russia...