Word: unionizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oslo, New York's ham-handed Representative Ham Fish, four Senators and 24 Representatives were last week spending $10,000 in the only big Congressional junket of the year, the annual trip to the meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. Still happily present in Mr. Fish's memory was his coup of last January, when he and 50 Republicans outsmarted bumbling Leader Alben Barkley, ousted him from his plushy post as head junketeer to the Union sessions (TIME, Jan. 30). But Mr. Fish also found a little sour milk in his junket. Before he sailed for Oslo, he confidently...
...Recognition in eleven other plants is subject to the outcome of employe elections, which G. M. has petitioned NLRB to hold. If NLRB in the G. M. elections follows a precedent laid down last week for employe voting in Chrysler and Briggs (bodies), Homer Martin's union may yet get a foothold. For, instead of holding the elections on a company-wide basis, as C. I. O. asked, the Labor Board called for voting plant-by-plant. General Motors, Chrysler and others thus would have to deal with C. I. O. in some shops...
...United Artists-Alexander Korda), memorializing one of the most bullish turns British imperialism ever took: the gaudy slaughter at Omdurman with which Horatio Herbert Kitchener in 1898 avenged the massacre of General Gordon and the British garrison at Khartum, 13 years before. For Four Feathers Hungarian Alexander Korda, the Union Jack's most industrious cinematic flagwaver, sent his director-brother, Zoltan, and practically his entire cast to the Sudan, where they stumbled over some of the actual shells Kitchener had left behind, tottered in temperatures of 120° in the breeze. Able Actor Ralph Richardson, who suffers a sunstroke...
Noble-browed Polar Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, 59, published a book about Iceland (Iceland: The First American Republic), joined Local 537 of the New York College Teachers Union, because "as yet there is no union for polar explorers...
...Pont, Monsanto, Union Carbide, General Electric, General Motors, Corn Products, American Can, International Nickel, Standard Oil of New Jersey, Texas Corp., National Steel, Liggett & Myers "B," Reynolds Tobacco "B," U. S. Tobacco, American Telephone, Consolidated Edison, Public Service of New Jersey, Eastman Kodak, International Harvester, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Union Tank Car, American Chicle, Beech-Nut, General Foods, J. C. Penney, Sears-Roebuck, Commercial Credit, Commercial Investment Trust, Household Finance, International Business Machines, Allied Chemical, New Jersey Zinc, Homestake, Phelps Dodge, Bristol-Myers...