Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world supply. Californians sometimes refer to Herbert Hoover as the owner, but he said in Manhattan last week that he holds 3% of the stock, has nothing to do with management or labor policy. If he did have, he said, the miners could join a union if they wished...
...around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined to recognize or dicker with their union, reported to Brother Herbert that all was peaceful. Eighty-five pickets patrolled the mine while their officers asked for help from the National Labor Relations Board...
President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America last week told the Dies Committee about Communism in C.I.O., saying little that he has not said before. While Mr. Martin repeated himself in Washington, his big and boisterous union showed signs of 1) falling apart, and 2) waxing stronger every...
...Ralph Knox, an ousted union official whom his former associates would like to put in a psychopathic ward, launched the American Automobile, Aircraft, Automotive and Allied Employes, claimed 20,000 members would desert U. A. W. to start...
...Strike-of-the-week was at Flint, Mich. Union employes of General Motors' Fisher Body plant No. 1 voted 3,434 to 433 to strike, surprisingly walked out instead of sitting down. Out of work with them were 2,500 Fishermen. In other related plants 5,000 walked out. G. M. officials complained that U. A. W. had violated its contract by short-circuiting the usual grievance procedure. U. A. W. spokesmen said they had grieved per contract without avail. The strikers wanted to be paid at flat day rates instead of by piece work. Before making the change...