Word: unionizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further when he noted in Franklin Roosevelt's "invitation" a scarcely veiled threat to impose peace if none could be found by negotiation. Four weeks after the negotiations bogged down, John Lewis last week announced: "Peace, as such, is a secondary consideration to the organization [of non-union workers] . . . The A. F. of L. is still in control of a small group of leaders firmly entrenched, reactionary in their attitude on public affairs, tolerant of many evils in the A. F. of L. . . . The C. I. O. board is unanimously convinced that the A. F. of L. is following...
...years amassed 3,800,000 claimed members by notably aggressive "defense," Mr. Lewis announced last week that unpeaceful C. I. O. hereafter will carry its war to the enemy, which claims 3,600,000 members. First example of his new tactics followed forthwith. In Manhattan Mr. Carey's union sued for an injunction to restrain A. F. of L. from boycotting (refusing to install or handle) electrical products made by C. I. O. workers. Thus Labor, by requesting an injunction, turned upon itself a favorite weapon of anti-union employers...
...Textiles, where C. I. O.'s temporary organizing committee under Sidney Hillman has just been turned into a permanent union with contracts covering some 400,000 of textiles' estimated 1,200,000 workers. A. F. of L. proposes to put organizers, money and life into a presently feeble rival, has yet to do much about it. Their big battleground: the South. > Automobile manufacturing, where, as in textiles, A. F. of L. owes its foothold to an anemic minority which recently deserted C. I. O. The Federation's Homer Martin slightly bettered his position last week. Instead...
...fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive's main hailiwicks in Illinois, Kentucky...
...both want the whole hog. On the Pacific Coast, Longshoreman Bridges is all but supreme on the docks, has some seagoing personnel, but A. F. of L. has most of the sailors and the teamsters who haul to & from the waterfronts. C. I. O.'s eastern National Maritime Union last week took a grave setback when it gave up its strike against Standard Oil of New Jersey and four other tanker companies, leaving disgruntled Gulf Coast sailors likely meat for A. F. of L. or independent union organizers...