Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tired of being the whipping boy of a lagging national defense program, last week labor rose to protest. Cried President William Green, the A. F. of L. stood "four square in support of the national defense program. We commit ourselves to avoid strikes. . . . We are ready to make any reasonable and necessary sacrifices...
...separately." Evidence that that unity was lacking had cropped up with increasing frequency in recent weeks. It was plain in the strike at the Vultee plant, which for twelve days stopped delivery of badly needed basic trainers to the Army Air Corps. It was plain in the formal, written protest (later swallowed) of President John G. Pew of Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. that his company could not answer charges of unfair labor practice, and at the same time go ahead with a $69,000,000 Navy building program. It was plain in the demand of Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman...
...Netherlands East Indies the Japanese suddenly discovered a fresh wave of "anti-Japanese sentiment." This caused the Tokyo Government to deliver a strong note of protest to Netherlands Minister General J. C. Pabst. Since the Japanese have failed to get all the oil they want from the East Indies, this protest looked like the beginning of a new economic holdup. The Japanese have always considered it fair to shoot a recalcitrant holdup victim...
Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...
Seven schools and colleges of the Boston area will also send representations to protest against the rally, including Wellesley, Simmons, Radcliffe, Tufts, and M. I. T. Ten local trade unions, both C. I. O. and A. F. of L., will join the picket line as well as delegates from the Y. W. C. A., the Cambridge high schools, the Women's Neighborhood League of Cambridge, and the Pacifist League...