Word: unionizations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Wellsian telescope on Mars might have detected human congestion in the U. S. Capital that morning. Some 600,000 people, many of them standing on peach baskets, walled the royal route from Union Station, past the Capitol, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. The 32nd President of the United States was at the station. Mr. Roosevelt said: "At last I greet you." King George VI said: "Mr. President, it is indeed a pleasure for Her Majesty and myself to be here...
...which had tied up Chrysler and Lincoln plants as well, by depriving them of Briggs auto bodies (TIME, June 12). Having just taken his minority U. A. W. back into A. F. of L., President Homer Martin thereupon displayed his muscle. He demanded that big General Motors recognize his union to the exclusion of C. I. O., called a strike in three G. M. plants and threatened more...
...both sides, G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen promptly demonstrated. "The corporation is and at all times has been prepared to bargain with duly authorized representatives of the employes," said the big motor-maker who was the first to sign up with C. I. O.'s union in 1937. "What it cannot do is to decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether one or the other has exclusive representation, the corporation will continue to deal with local...
Former Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio...
Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...