Word: unionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Briggs local's smart little Vice President Emil Mazey popped out a demand for the same sort of union shop guarantee which John Lewis won for his coal miners last month...
Briggs's President William P. Brown declared that he would not require all his 15,000 employes to be in the union. Nevertheless he was willing to discuss exclusive recognition of Mr. Mazey's local as a compromise. This he and Mr. Mazey proceeded to do this week, postponing the union shop issue until bodies again are flowing to Chrysler, Ford, et al. Meantime Mr. Martin, having been squeezed out at Briggs, announced that 66,768 fellow secessionists from C. I. O. had voted to affiliate with A. F. of L. His figure was almost as surprising...
...Fair had "intimidated, coerced and warned its employes not to exercise their rights of self-organization for collective bargaining." The employes: 17 itinerant guess-your-weight artists. They included Guesser Jack A. Whyte and his sons Frank and Clifford, who guessed that they could get away with forming a union, were fired for their error...
...three Baltic States bordering Russia, all of them formerly in Tsarist Russia, do not want guarantees, and least of all by the Soviet Union. What they want is neutrality. (Denmark last week signed with Germany a non-aggression pact which, in Copenhagen, was hailed as a certificate of neutrality.) But, argued Comrade Molotov, it may be that these little States will "prove unable to defend their neutrality in the event of an attack by aggressors." In that case, since they are border buffers, Soviet Russia would want them defended whether the States themselves agreed or not. The Foreign Commissar used...
Unsympathetic. Nor were Comrade Molotov's statements on general policy lost on his hearers. He put to rest any thought that the Soviet Union was thinking of lining up with Germany, although he saw no harm in continuing German-Russian trade relations. The Soviet Union, the Commissar said, "can under no circumstances be suspected of any sympathy whatsoever for aggressors...