Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven the Pittsburgh operators to adopt like measures, to meet the price competition...
...returned from Europe. He said the Committee must get the details from his subordinates. But he was delighted to give the Committee and the world the benefit of his long experience as an employer: "It has been a broad policy into which the question of the open shop or union labor does not enter. As the result of my forty years' management of labor I have never had a serious difficulty with my men in my lifetime. I believe in the eld theory of supply and demand...
...Clifton Copley, who used to represent the eleventh district, Ill., in the U. S. House, and whose success with public utilities and small-town newspapers in Illinois (Springfield State Journal, Elgin Courier, Joliet Herald News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against...
Espionage. The dread Ogpu (sometimes abbreviated Gpu) or secret police is given its unfamiliar official designation by Mr. Lee as, "The Union State Political Department...
Companies. As everyone knows, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (including Newcomb Carlton's Western Union) is the greatest domestic communication system in the U. S. At its head is that young super-executive, President Walter Sherman Gifford. As everyone also knows, the second greatest domestic system is the Mackay-owned Postal Telegraph, which has no telephones...