Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvest of bitter strikes which General Motors rasped this winter started some second thought in its councils, which led to the dismissal of the agency. This public pillory of one company must be impelling the others to reconsider the wisdom of bossing the workmen by fear and distrust, for the cost of spies is great and the increment from their use is disastrous. If it is important that the executives know what labor is up to, better systems can be devised to find out; many factories have them already. The half million dollars a year that, for example, General Motors...
...announced that the Reich is spending ?100,000 ($500,000) to enlarge its London Embassy by throwing three great houses into one. Last week this work was going at rush pace and in the House of Commons loud protests were made by Laborite M. P.'s because British workmen were not in on it. Over from Germany, the Baron had brought some 145 bronzed and healthy Nazi workmen. Not only did they fail to correspond to anti-Nazi descriptions of how in Nazi-land most people are painfully tightening their belts, but in London most comfortable Bloomsbury board with...
...unionists approached the plant manager, demanded recognition. Company guards leaped to the manager's defense, fists flew, shots were fired, 15 were injured. A crowd of men forced their way into plant No. 4 and "sat down," subsequently engaging in a fire-hose battle with non-union workmen. Thereupon, under orders from Governor Murphy, 1,200 troops of the Michigan National Guard moved into the zone, cleared the area around the plants, tore down pickets' shanties, hauled away a union sound truck, had four agitators jailed. Since the troops allowed no one into the zone without a military...
...grabbed by twelve mechanical shovels, the dynamite had been laid. All was nearing readiness for the festive blowoff and the newshawks, standing at a safe distance, plugged their ears, braced themselves for the shock. At that moment an electric engine rolled up drawing two cars of black powder. Five workmen and a foreman started unloading...
...Erin O'Brien-Moore) when he learns that the foreman's job he was counting on has gone to a young Pole. His disappointment makes him susceptible when invited to join a secret organization whose purpose is to prevent foreigners from taking jobs away from U. S. workmen. Ensuing developments, derived from the activities of Detroit's "Black Legion," make the pic ture one of the most effective in Warner Brothers series of industrial problem plays...