Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the President's gallery in the House of Representatives with the wife, uncle (Frederic Adrian Delano) and mother of the man who made her father famous. There Diana, who is six, listened to that man deliver his sixth annual address to Congress on the State of the Union. Diana's father can tell her that, up to a point, it was Franklin Roosevelt's most smashingly successful message since his "The only thing we have to fear is Fear" speech of March 1933. After the November elections had showed Mr. Roosevelt's political stock...
...cases covering 1,845,818 workers closed during the year, 95% were settled by dismissal or withdrawal of union complaints, or by agreements between workers and employers without a hearing. In the remaining 5% were most of the cases which the public heard about...
...company has a CIO contract, and when a union official died, President Heil closed down the plant, half-masted the flag, went to the funeral. Julius Heil thinks he has as much social conscience as any man. When he set out to become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
...Francisco at the head of a caravan of 20 cars that swelled to 200. In a parade San Francisco labor had arranged for him, Tom Mooney refused to ride in an automobile. He walked, bareheaded, ahead of the members of his old A. F. of L. Moulders' Union, ahead of Harry Bridges, ahead of everybody. The siren of the Ferry Building, block away from the scene of the 1916 bombing, screeched as it had that day. Crowds five deep lined the streets, once almost pushed the guest of honor into the band. Parents held up their children...
Frankfurter appeared personally after two days of hearings in which witnesses assailed his political and social ideologies, cast doubt on his citizenship, questioned his membership in the Civil Liberties Union and his activities in the Tom Mooney band Sacco-Vanzetti cases, and raised the racial issue...