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...LINE PILOTS Association may be expelled from the A.F.L. because pilots have been crossing picket lines during the International Association of Flight Engineers' strike against United Airlines. The A.F.L.'s National Executive Council has suspended the Pilots Association and will recommend its expulsion at the next A.F.L. convention...
...sidewalks outside glossy showrooms from Manhattan to New Rochelle last week the strikers, impeccable in well-tailored flannels and natty topcoats, picketed discreetly, almost sheepishly. There were no catcalls or other disturbances when customers violated the gentlemanly picket lines. Even those intrepid customers who bought new Cadillacs found they might have to wait for delivery. Members of the city's Cadillac delivery service were out, honoring the picket lines...
...executives became a team working toward a mutual goal. After a year, the Adamson Co. was five times as profitable as in the old days; even after sharing the productivity savings 50-50, management still reaped twice as much income. As for the workers, a union veteran of many picket lines told Scanlon: "Joe, I can't fight here. I'd be fighting myself...
Researcher Finn knew about unionism and unions before she came to TIME, twelve years ago. She learned in labor's own school of hard knocks. She handed out leaflets at the gates of industrial plants and once got roughed up on a picket line. David Dubinsky hired her as an organizer for his A.F.L. garment workers, and Sidney Hillman hired her away to write for his C.I.O. clothing workers' Advance...
Working nights, he went to high school and then to Wayne University, came out of classes frothing ideas. When the Depression hit Detroit, he reacted with a surge of Socialist hope and a sense of historic urgency. Excitedly, he joined picket lines and soapboxed at breadlines, organized soup kitchens and leftist student clubs. In the 1932 presidential campaign, he mounted a rear platform on his old Ford coupé and campaigned for Socialist Norman Thomas...