Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were shot fatally, 28 wounded, in a pitched battle between strikers and peace officers outside the gates of the Aluminum Co. of America's fabricating plant in the company town of Alcoa, Tenn. Promptly dispatched to Alcoa were three companies of National Guardsmen. The Alcoa strike was called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate...
After the Coronation and levee, where President Watson's picture was taken emerging in his Court costume beside some British guardsmen in towering busbies (see cut), Mrs. Watson accompanied her husband on an inspection trip to Paris, for he is U. S. Commissioner General to the French Exposition. The flooding Seine had stopped work on the U. S. Pavilion and energetic Commissioner Watson managed to fit in a quick business trip to Manhattan before speeding back across the Atlantic last week to Berlin...
...Governor's line to show him how a tuna feels, a stunning explosion took place in the engine room, the yacht burst into flames. Governor Hoffman and his party of 27 were rescued, unscathed. The yacht burned to the water, was overturned and sunk by Coast Guardsmen...
...hint that the troops might not prove an unmixed blessing to C. I. O. came early in the week when Governor Davey ordered his National Guardsmen to enforce a stiff injunction limiting picketing in the steel town of Warren. Labor's reply was a sympathetic strike in Warren but after one day C. I. O. called it off. The Governor's decision to allow the reopening of plants brought the C. I. O.'s full wrath upon his head. When demands that the troops be withdrawn were ignored, C. I. O. lawyers marched into Federal Courts seeking...
After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...