Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clad in a Crimson sweater for Harvard and also competing to give his beloved Lowell House an unofficial boost in the Straus trophy race, Irving M. Clark '41 literally shoveled 23 live goldfish down his threat before amazed onlookers in the Union last night as he hung up a new Harvard and Intercollegiate mark in his specialty event...
Quick to add heat to the President's pressure were C. I. O., which called loudly for haste by the Congress, and the Workers Alliance (union of unemployed and reliefers), which announced a march to Washington of 100 delegates representing 800,000 Southern WPA workers for a protest meeting this week. WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington went up to the Capitol to testify in detail about his needs, armed with State-by-State figures on the impending layoffs. These maneuvers worried many a Congressman. On others they had an opposite effect. Apostles of Economy were goaded into balkiness. The first skirmish...
Historic to Labor was the case of the Danbury Hatters. In 1902, A. F. of L.'s United Hatters of North America called a strike and instituted a nationwide union boycott against D. E. Loewe & Co. of Danbury, Conn, (still a hatting centre...
Most people still do not realize that unions can be sued and made to pay damages (hence the frequent demands for incorporation to "make unions responsible"). To trial in Philadelphia last week went a whopping big damage suit, big enough to break the union concerned. In Apex Hosiery Co. v. Branch No. 1, American Federation of Hosiery Workers, et al., the union, its officers and its members stand to lose a maximum of $3,515,872 in triple damages...
Both Kuhn and Taylor are members of the Union Committee, the executive committee of the Freshman class. Taylor was goalie on the Yardling hockey team, and Kuhn played end on the football team until he was disabled by a broken ankle in the Dartmouth game...