Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Service for visiting cattle, hogs and sheep was restored at the Chicago Stockyards last week. A 14-day strike of stock handlers (TIME, Dec. 5) won recognition of their C. I. O. union and a promise by the management to negotiate a written contract within ten days...
...busses, trucks moved. The Government offices operated without a hitch. The factories opened and the workers, except in a very few instances, went to work. For example, of the nearly 20,000 Paris subway workers, only 200 failed to report for duty. At 8 a.m. the powerful Subway Workers Union revoked its strike order and by noon Paris was doing business as usual...
Individual employers dismissed 30,000 strikers next day. Some 700,000 others were temporarily locked out. But the Daladier Government announced a policy of "appeasement," discouraged reprisals. However, the Premier immediately crossed Leader Jouhaux's name from the directorate of the Bank of France and several railway union leaders were booted from the National Railway Board. This was followed by a flurry of sympathy strikes. At Le Havre the 1,500 crew members of the Normandie were discharged when they refused to sail the liner out of port on schedule. Reservations on the Normandie, including that of Anthony Eden...
...Biggest Japanese businessmen, the Tokyo armament tycoons, met War Minister Seishiro Itagaki last week at the Military Club. There Lieut. General Eiki Tojo warned them that Britain, France and the Soviet Union will continue to give aid to Generalissimo Chiang, and that when Russia thinks Japan has become "exhausted"by the struggle, Tokyo may expect Moscow to roll an offensive down against Korea through Vladivostok. Snapped Lieut. General Tojo at the tycoons: "We are now faced with the necessity of preparing armaments adequate to defend Japan on two fronts at the same time...
...into the water. In leaped Seaman Wyly, grabbed the unconscious man, was reaching up to get a hold when the fender fell on both of them. Stunned, Wyly clung to his stevedore until rescuers hauled both men out, took the stevedore, his leg broken, to the longshoremen's union hospital...