Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands. Big B. & 0., in worse plight for its own coal supplies than most, began to "confiscate" (and of course pay for) coal consigned to other users over its lines. Pennsylvania's Legislature at Harrisburg formally begged the negotiators to come to terms. Here and there union pickets dumped coal trucked from non-union mines, and police began to worry that prolonged abstention might turn into a bloody, old-fashioned coal strike. Nearly everywhere, company stores owned by the standpat operators continued to sell food on credit to John Lewis' abstaining miners...
Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins, often unfortunate in rubbing masculine Labor the wrong way, observed in Washington that "only words" lay between union and operators...
...Soft-coal operators under contract to John Lewis "check off" the dues of his members from their payrolls, but do not require all their workers to belong to his union...
...spectator from any place but Mars might have seen, beneath the hysteria and hangover of the boom years, a perspective of peace ahead. The ribbons of trenches that crisscrossed Europe had been filled in, the post-War statesmen of revenge were out of office, the Soviet Union had turned from its program of international revolution to its program of internal development under the Five-Year Plan. U. S. tourist spending in Europe jumped over 350% between 1920 and 1928, building went on as rapidly as in any period of history, and if for a moment a steadily rising standard...
...Guild has tried to prove that three Times employes were fired for union activity and should be reinstated. The Times has tried to prove that they were fired for incompetence and should stay fired. But of far more importance than what happens to the three employes is the fundamental conflict between Guild and Times, where the Guild has never felt strong enough to strike...