Word: union
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train popped Joe Kennedy, face red as ever, to race through the echoing grand concourse of Washington's Union Station. His Mayfair chums would have been horrified, for it was breakfast time and spectacled Mr. Kennedy was still wearing last night's evening clothes...
Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole...
...unauthorized strike must end completely. Once we accomplish that, the enemies of our union will no longer be able to make the charge that the U. A. W.C. I. O. is irresponsible. . . . Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns...
...responsibility for this must be squarely laid at the door of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, one of our most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands...
...result, creative drama is seriously threatened. Driven from Europe by the war, it can be preserved only by aiding, rather than sabotaging, such experimental theatrical organizations as the Dramatic Club represents--a fact which short-sighted union officials have failed to grasp. Even had the Club met the exorbitant costs, members, not allowed by union rules to handle scenery, lights, or music, would have been denied fundamental training in the technical side of dramatics...