Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no question of backing down," he said. "The workmen themselves decided it. ... We have no choice but to carry out their orders...
...agreed to a 5% wage increase and negotiation of other questions. Six weeks ago, with nothing more settled, the union struck. To outsiders it looked as if the union had picked Auto-Lite to open its drive to capture the whole motor industry. The company continued operating, hired other workmen. Wrathful strikers picketed in vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their way in and out of the shop, morning and evening. Strikers were arrested for breaking...
...breweries pay dividends of 20% to 30%. 3) Adolf Hitler. Strasbourg's prosperity does not entirely cover the province. Wool-weaving, cotton-spinning Mulhouse is as badly off as any of the cities of the South, and in no other province is the break between Socialist workmen and Fascist merchants and manufacturers more obvious. Correspondent Stowe talked to one Paul Bourson, who said...
Lille, Calais, Valenciennes and the other manufacturing towns between the English Channel and the Belgian frontier have been more deeply hit by Depression than any other part of France. Their mills are empty and their tempers short. Factories are being dismantled, foreign workmen deported and the local Press is gagged against publishing any accounts of labor troubles...
...City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor to welcome their martyr home...