Word: weapon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After eight weeks of striking, during which they made bishops attending an Episcopal convention go without clean linen, laundrymen in Cincinnati hit upon a new weapon to bring their bosses to terms: they opened two co-operative laundries...
...immediate legal weapon to force rayon producers to obey the rules,* but the National Retail Dry Goods Association was last week urging all its members to do so. The N.R.D.G.A. regards fibre identification as one more inevitable manifestation of the consumer research and protection movement that has been spreading through the U. S. for the past decade. But many a rayon man, forced into expensive changes of his production and advertising systems, thinks differently, and various rayon groups have spent the three weeks since the original FTC decision trying hard to get it altered. Last week Erwin Feldman, counsel...
...purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that of Countess Cathcart, excluded her not because of her amours but "because of an admission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, assault with a dangerous weapon." Unless Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reverses the Board's ruling on her fellow working woman, Magda de Fontanges will be sent back to France this week...
...that any onetime Premier should so utterly lack discretion as to blurt out brutal facts of this kind and give the politicians' show away, last week astonished Europe. But there was no outcry that French Democracy should no longer employ "secret funds" since these are considered a necessary weapon always in reserve for quick action against the quick-acting dictators...
...result that union officials have to hastily dig up enough grievances for everybody. ... It also is dangerous to the union because the worker is generally hard-headed enough to size up the dispute from his own standpoint and objects to losing time if he gains nothing thereby. . . The economic weapon, which in this case is placed in the hands of an individual wholly incapable of even figuring the extent of its magnitude or the possible result of a shutdown, makes, to my mind, the strongest argument for discipline and responsibility of unions, even if it has to be done...