Word: unionizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Houston, Texas last week, A.F. of L's Hotel and Restaurant Workers' Union demanded that proprietors of drive-in, curb-service restaurants pay their 300 waitresses more money, cover them up. "Those girls wear shorts or grass skirts, rain or shine." said the union's Jack Parm-ley. "Why, their clothing is next to noth-ing." He set a time limit, said he might then call a strike for a clothed shop...
...union vice president was shot in the leg. Two union men had been stabbed. Another was beaten, later hounded into a cellar whence police rescued him. Carloads of union men drove up to a union picketline, attacked the picketers with baseball bats. Other union rovers toured the city, on the lookout for rival union...
...United Automobile Workers of America. Homer Martin's recently independent United Automobile Workers wished to horn in on the Briggs negotiations, horn out C. I. O. Homer Martin's men got the worst of it in the negotiations although C. I. O.'s union suffered most of the casualties at the hands of his goons in the street fights...
City Councilman Michael A. Sullivan has asked Cambridge Chief of Police Timothy Leahy to investigate and, if necessary, prosecute the backers of the musical play "The Cradle Will Rock," which was produced by the Student Union on Saturday, May 27, in Sanders Theatre, he announced last night...
Strait, author of "Union New" and former New York Union correspondent in Geneva, Switzerland spoke recently at the University as guest lecturer in the Government Department explaining his democratic union idea which has received widespread acclaim...