Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Headquarters for (a) were to be in Chicago. Headquarters for (b) were Mr. Nutt himself, at the Union Trust Co., Cleveland. To assist him in the East, Mr. Nutt picked out a Manhattanite, Jeremiah Milbank, mild-mannered Yale graduate ('09), careful investor of a multi-million patrimony; clubman, generous donor to philanthropies (especially for cripples); director of such concerns as the Southern Railway, Metropolitan Life, Chase National Bank, Corn Products; board chairman of Case, Pomeroy & Co. Like Banker Nutt and the Democracy's Raskob, Mr. Milbank is new-to politics but widely acquainted, keen to learn...
Long before the time-limit of the Jacksonville agreement was reached, operators began "welshing," to meet non-union competition. On April 1, 1927, when the agreement expired, began the general bituminous strike, a strike that is not settled yet. Through successive months of hope, doggedness, anger, misery, squalor, International President John L. Lewis exhorted the United Mine Workers to take "no backward step" from their demands for continuance of Jacksonville rates. Many an operator went bankrupt. Many a head was broken in fights between union pickets and company "scabs" or police. The strong companies remanned their mines with non-union...
...save the local unions in the one State where they had not suffered inroads that the Illinois men agitated for local option on the Jacksonville agreement, and got it. WThether or not the action came too late to help locals in other States, whether International President Lewis had carried his doggedness irretrievably far, remained to be seen. The first overture for local readjustment, by Ohio's union miners to Ohio's operators, was flatly rebuffed last week. President S. H. Robbins of the Ohio Coal Operators Association said: ". . . not interested . . . will have no further dealings with the United...
...three years, Psychiatrist James Lincoln McCartney watched, studied, ministered to the missionary mind. He recognized the presence of a curious mental instability among transplanted Westerners. In the clinics of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, he saw many a case written down as "neurasthenic," "insane," "neurotic." In the Peking Union Medical College, he heard fellow psychiatrists place the blame on food, climate, economic readjustments. But enthusiastic, 30-year-old Dr. McCartney sought a subtler, more basic cause...
Married. Claire Luce, dancer (Follies, No Foolin'), aviatrix; and Clifford Warren Smith, stepson of President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan...