Word: unionizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional basis. Most fluttered guest at the lunch was one Mildred Stewart, a maid, who sat between Mrs. Roosevelt and feminist Author Fannie Hurst. Mrs. Roosevelt listened to Miss Stewart's speech: "As trained workers we don't feel we have anything to gain from a union ... we have discussed the advantages of social security but we haven't fallen for the arguments of either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. organizers...
...jury found the monopoly extended from the ten big milk-distributing corporations through a dealers' association, a farm milk-producers' association, and milk-bottlers, down through an A. F. of L. milkwagon drivers' union to President Herman N. Bundesen and his Chicago Board of Health, a police officer, Daniel A. Gilbert, and two men who arbitrated price disputes...
...Last week the Third Circuit Appeals Court ruled that the Sherman Act could not be invoked against a C. I. O. union by Philadelphia's Apex Hosiery Co., returned a triple-damage fine of $711,932.55, gave unions hope they are as yet beyond the purview of anti-trust laws...
...part of our employes, or the loss of a single automobile sale on the part of our dealers." Then why this costly shutdown? No strike, no lockout, it was a cessation of work which followed when the contract between Chrysler and its C. I. O.-unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides haggled over terms of a new contract, the union gave Chrysler an excuse to close first its great Dodge plant, then others in Detroit, Indiana and California, by slowing down...
...midnight last week in Detroit, in a little room of Chrysler's Institute of Engineering, Messrs. Keller, Murray and U. S. Conciliator Jim Dewey had a final private chat. Outside were the union's President Roland Jay Thomas and Richard Frankensteen (whose tactless tactics helped prolong the strife). Jim Dewey excitedly emerged, announced: "I am happy to announce an agreement...