Word: striker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pinchot is not the only wealthy woman who knows the difference between a "scab" and a striker. Last week, readers of The Christian Century were surprised to find the name of a great lady as one who had written a letter to that religious journal. The letter...
...railway companies and their striking employes signed agreements a hours later, in which the unions guaranteed not to strike again without warning and negotiations, and the striker leaders admitted the calling of the strike to have been "wrongful." J.H. Thomas, M.P., famed "balance wheel of British labor," signed this agreement as Secretary of the Railwaymen's Union, pronounced it "eminently satisfactory...
...most recent crime was committed at Paterson, N. J., last fall, when a strike of silk-workers in that municipality was in full swing. The strikers invited Mr. Baldwin to address them in their hall. Chief of Police Tracey vetoed the invitation, closed the hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from...
...Other rooms there are, innumerable; also many rare and valuable pieces of Colonial art. First among these was a painting, said to be the oldest existing U. S. portrait. It shows the countenance of Jacobus Gerritsen Striker, chief burgomaster of New Amsterdam during the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant, painted by himself. In velvet jacket, linen collar, with a three-bottle flush that time cannot temper nor death dismay, he stares out, that burgomaster, at the intrusion of the centuries...
Perhaps more important to the worker is the recognition of a striker as an employee. Under the former interpretation of common law, a man abandoned all claims to that status upon leaving his employment. Under the Clayton Act thus upheld, Justice Sutherland declares that it is not necessary for the old status of employer and employee to exist at the time the alleged contempt was committed. This meaning of the law gives to the worker the lien on his job which the feels when the leaves work with the intention of returning to it under more favorable conditions. It gives...