Re: Debt-free_money

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/9/07, Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Truman was going to draft the miners.

of course, Roosevelt was more even-handed (;-)>).

> Montgomery Ward strike [from the Wikipedia]

> In 1943, the union [the United Retail, Wholesale and Department Store
Union] struck Montgomery Ward & Co. after management refused to comply
with a War Labor Board order to recognize the union and institute the
terms of a collective bargaining agreement the board had worked out.
The strike involved nearly 12,000 workers in Jamaica, New York;
Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; St. Paul, Minnesota; Denver,
Colorado; San Rafael, California; and Portland, Oregon. Ward's then
cut wages and fired many union activists.

> On April 26, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered U.S. Army
troops to seize the company's property in Chicago and remove Ward's
chairman, Sewell Avery (who was carried out of his office on the
shoulders of American troops).<

FWIW, Avery was my grandfather's boss for a long time (and fired him).
It was totally against the rules of Montgomery Wards to write out
Avery's name as "S. L. Avery" because of what it spelled.
--
Jim Devine /  "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your
own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.