Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia, does a hefty business in roofing, wall board, paints, termite preventives, etc. etc. Its able President William Herman Lowe was astounded two years ago by the news that "Pabco" workers long used to high pay, sick benefits, annual vacations and the like, nevertheless wanted to join "outside" unions. Instead of fighting the trend, he forthwith dissolved Pabco's "company union," required his 1,500 employes in San Francisco and Oakland to join one of the 15 A. F. of L. and three C. I. O. unions now under contract. He also decided that Pabco had failed miserably...
...Pacific Coast Director Harry Bridges liked the school so well that one of his lieutenants arranged for San Francisco trades union officials to enroll. Two University of California instructors did the teaching (at the joint expense of the State and the U. S. Department of the Interior, under an arrangement available to but seldom used by other industrialists). Says Pabco's Lowe: ". . . We're willing to hand it to the unions. . . [they] not only increased efficiency in our plant, but they are helping to sell our products. That's what we got out of playing ball with...
Three straws-in-the-wind last week indicated that wherever United Automobile Workers' President Homer Martin is headed, the union is not headed...
...Homer Martin severed his ties with C. I. O. and John L. Lewis four weeks ago (TIME, Feb. 6). Having had time to weigh the reaction among his rank & file, Rebel Martin last week professed to want only "an autonomous union" within C. I. O., where he is no longer wanted. Thus he apparently hoped to offset reports that he is thinking of lining up with A. F. of L.'s William Green, whom most autoworkers heartily distrust...
...from the subject of her first book as a picket line is from a pulpit. The Wedding is an interesting novel in its own right. But it is more interesting as an indication of how the proletarian novelists are developing, of what they find when they leave the union halls and look at things on the other side of the tracks...