Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because without the longshoremen no general strike comparable to San Francisco's War of 1934 can break out, this was good news at the Golden Gate, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, many a lesser Pacific port. Despite stiffened employer resistance and a labor position weakened by inter-union feuds, longshoremen were not quite willing to grant the outright guarantee against outlaw "quickies" which President Almon Roth of the Pacific Coast Waterfront Employers Association originally demanded. Instead the Bridges union agreed to punish contract violators by suspension or expulsion, to put disputed cases up to five permanent arbitrators, in no event...
...young unknown, James B. Carey, astounded organized labor and shocked the radio industry five years ago by wangling a contract for his local union with Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco). Last week up-&-coming Mr. Carey, having soared to high place in C. I. O. as president of its United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers, had to take a setback in the plant where he got his start...
After a four-month shutdown and quarrel over new contract terms, Philco re-opened part of its vast Philadelphia factory. Back to work went 500 of the 13,000 who worked there at Philco's peak. They had lost their union shop for a weaker hiring clause giving preference to union workers; their wages were cut 9? an hour for men, 7? for women; their hours were up from 36 to 40 per week...
...Carey nevertheless thought he had done well for them: Philco had threatened to move out of Philadelphia, had already sublet its work to nonunion, out-of-town shops, and union men & women had been selling stuffed dates, shining shoes, going on relief. Principal union advantage: wealthy, fair-minded Trucker James Patrick Clarke is to arbitrate disputes, see to it that Philco keeps most of its production in Philadelphia...
...Murray and Sidney Hillman. With them at the Hotel Statler was swart young Lee Pressman, C. I. O. general counsel, who is so thoroughly allergic to Homer Martin that the two were kept apart. Boss John L. Lewis had sent the visitors to save C.I.O.'s third largest union from dismemberment at the hands of Mr. Martin and feuding fellow officers (TIME, June 20). Mr. Lewis was aboard ship, coasting home from a union conference in Mexico City, but his absence lessened neither the fact of his intervention in an autonomous affiliate's affairs nor Homer Martin...