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...Norris-La Guardia Act stopped federal judges from issuing anti-strike injunctions against the struggling unions of the time. In 1962, the Supreme Court held that the statute even protected walkouts barred by no-strike agreements in union contracts. But last week, in a rare move, the court reversed itself. Result: federal judges may now enjoin strikes that violate no-strike provisions if a union contract also provides for binding arbitration of disputes. At issue was a strike by the Retail Clerks union against a California supermarket, called after the store had allowed nonunion workers to arrange its shelves...
...sure, the most prominent political figure of Italian descent was Fiorello La Guardia, who helped New York City survive the Great Depression of thirty years ago. Here was a man of the people in the finest sense of the word, a mayor who molded the citizens of New York together during the hardest of times...
While dweiling on this melting put concept, it is interesting to point out that Fiorello La Guardia's father was Italian, but his mother was Jewish, and that Roy Campanelia's father was Italian, while his mother was black...
This country will remain great only as long as all men continue to seek a better life for all our citizens. Unless this nation exists at peace at home and abroad, then the work of Columbus and Vespucci and La Guardia and all the other prominent people of Italian lineage mentioned this morning would be for naught...
Even as the colonels reshuffled Torrijos' Cabinet, rival Guardia officers prepared to bring their chief back. Next day, word came from Mexico City: 'Torrijos is returning." On that signal, 14 truckloads of Guardsmen roared out of a garrison at outlying Tocumen Airport. Some fanned out over the country, others sped into Panama City and pulled up at the dingy, Victorian Guardia headquarters. After a bit of harmless shooting, Sanjur and Silvera were led off to jail...