Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Milwaukee, a regional meeting of representatives of 46,000 United Automobile Workers loyal to embattled President Homer Martin condemned Leader Lewis' proposed intervention in their troubled union affairs, voted to suspend their 5? monthly dues to C.I.O.-a move highly ominous if Homer Martin succeeds in retaining control of his 400,000-member union. Having lavished on steel and textile organization and on politics a great part of the reserve funds of his own United Mine Workers (the unsuccessful attempt to nominate U.M.W. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy for Governor of Pennsylvania cost C.I.O. and U.M.W. a whacking...
...show that he meant business, Mr. Green described the progress of A.F. of L.'s new International Maritime Federation, "the biggest effort we have ever made in the maritime industry." A double wedge to pit Harry Lundeberg's dissident Sailors' Union of the Pacific against C.I.O.'s West Coast longshoremen and A.F. of L.'s Atlantic longshoremen against C.I.O.'s National Maritime Union in the east, the Federation, said Mr. Green, was starting with 25,000 members, aiming...
...residential Ridgewood, N. J., Mayor Frank D. Livermore got tired of seeing pickets of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union (A. F. of L.) trudging up & down in front of the Charles F. Wenger stores carrying angry strike signs. Last week, Mayor Livermore submitted to his borough commission a new idea for restricting picketing. He proposed an ordinance imposing a $50 weekly license fee on anyone who wants to carry a sign on Ridgewood's streets. Penalties: $200 fine or 90 days in jail or both. His argument: while a man's civil liberties...
When members of Harry Bridges' C.I.O. Warehousemen's Union refused to unload a freight car which had been packed with school supplies at a struck F. W. Woolworth Co. warehouse last fortnight their employers fired them, shut down. The hot Woolworth car soon visited, and shut, 35 more union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area...
Because Harvard is dependent and sometimes cool, many of you may be lonely for a while, But the process of orientation is primarily your own problem; to solve it, you must put yourself forward, give equally for what you take. Go to the Union and meet your fellow-classmen; walk about the Yard and learn the names of the various buildings; participate in the functions of Phillips Brooks House...