Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Then coal mining fell upon evil days. The industry was economically depressed. Two miners tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant...
...obscure technicality gave the Springfield rumpsters a chance to claim the U. M. W. organization. The Union's constitution expired March 31, 1929. The Lewis faction failed last year to call a meeting to vote its renewal. Anti-Lewis leaders insisted the Union was defunct. The Springfield delegates adopted a new constitution, identical with the old one, just 40 minutes before the regular delegates meeting at Indianapolis did the same thing. They kept the Union's regular name, voted Lewis out simply by declaring all national offices vacant. Official salaries were cut in half, a five-day week...
...based upon the pride of the city of Youngstown in Sheet & Tube, widely held in the community. Another argument is that the price offered is not high enough. Another point, that the deal would be demoralizing to the steel industry, is probably based on the belief that a union with Bethlehem would bring Youngstown into the battle now being waged in other sections by Bethlehem and U. S. Steel...
...Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary: "I go about in the colleges now and I have to report to young women. If the Church is not going to keep pace with modern society and ' give women the right of becoming pastors, we are going to lose their support. They feel that a stigma is placed on them...
...Baltimore, educated at Manhattan's College of the City of New York, Columbia University. He has been married, divorced, remarried; has one son. He has founded: the late great Helicon Home Colony, Englewood, N. J. (Utopian colony) ; Intercollegiate Socialist Society (now League for Industrial Democracy); American Civil Liberties Union of California. He has been Socialist candidate: for Congress (N. J.); for Congress, Senate, Governor (Calif.). Fond of suing for libel, he does not always win. Author Sinclair Lewis, when a Yale undergraduate, admired Author Sinclair, left college to take care of Author Sinclair's furnace at Helicon Hall, dropped...