Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With ex-Justice George Sutherland he concurred in two other now-famous decisions which typified the conservatives' views: the 1927 journeymen stonecutters' case, the 1930 Baltimore Street Railway case. In the first the conservatives granted employers an injunction against union stonecutters who refused to work on nonunion stone shipped into their territory. In the second, conservatives ruled that a fare fixed by the State of Maryland, which permitted the railway a 6¼% rate of return, was "confiscatory," that the company was entitled to a return of 7½% or more...
From the trust-busting guns which he has turned on the monopolies of the building trades (TIME, Nov. 20), Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold last week let go another salvo. In spite of the liberal view that unions can do no lawbreaking, Trustbuster Arnold proceeded to list five kinds of union behavior which the Department of Justice considers violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The five...
...There can be no world economic peace without U. S. cooperation, said Thomas Lamont. The U. S. role should be to keep out of war, contribute to the peace. The form of economic cooperation necessary to "establish peace, recovery and re-employment" he would not guess, mentioned an economic union of countries in Western Europe, of a United States of Europe, spoke of its "immensely stabilizing effect" upon the world. "It would be measurably the counterpart of the great free-trade area of our own United States. ... It would be creating a situation that tended strongly to remove at their...
Long since abandoned was the union's first objective-the closed shop. What Mr. Frankensteen wanted now was a change in bargaining procedure, asking that the procedure be tightened up, provision be made for arbitration of disputes not settled by earlier steps. Mr. Weckler said ho, arbitration was impossible; that it meant, in the final analysis, the handing-over of plant operation to outsiders. Neither side disclosed what kind of arbitration plan was discussed. Mr. Frankensteen straightway produced a 1933 Chrysler agreement, in which arbitration was a major provision of Walter Percy Chrysler's company-union plan...
...Weckler stalled for time. Next day he said O. K. on arbitration, if the union would accept in toto the 1933 company-union plan. Now it was Mr. Frankensteen's turn to take time...