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...first time in 54 years the benevolent firm of Disston had a serious strike on its hands. It began when the dominant A. F. of L. union of United Saw, File & Steel Products Workers called a walkout- ostensibly for a union shop and a 10% pay rise, really to bring recalcitrant members of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee union (recently defeated in an NLRB election at the plant) into line. Glum at having their party called off, Disston workers trod their picket line without bitterness. Said one laconic oldtimer: "Well, they wanted a closed shop-and they...
...sarong of old and to reveal somewhat more than two inches above her knees--which fits in with the general tenor of the show in not appealing to one's intellectual perceptions. The drama closes with a honey of a finale when Scarlett O'-Lamour stages a walkout, leaving the audience just a touch in doubt (sic) as to whether or not she will ever see Tyrone again...
Known in naval slang as the "Jap Babies" because they were designed and calibred in anticipation of Japan's walkout on the 1936 London Naval Conference, Britain's new battleships are armed with ten 14-in. guns in one two-gun and two four-gun turrets. They shoot 1,560-lb. shells, claim to have greater range and hitting power than earlier British 15-inchers, to be only slightly inferior to foreign 16-inchers. Their speed is over 30 knots, seven more than that of the Nelson and Rodney, completed in 1927 and hitherto Britain's most...
...issue focused sharply in New York City, where 30,000 of the 32,000 skilled workers on WPA rolls were union men. Thomas A. Murray, president of the Building & Construction Trades Council (A. F. of L.), officially authorized the walkout and declaimed...
...cripple a hand. It was painful to the corporation; it was stimulating, exciting for the workers: something new in the newspapers every day, and no man knew when his marching orders might come. Moreover, a few men at a time were exerting pressure as menacing as a general walkout would be, while those still at work kept drawing...