Wildcat Strike
1939
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The Cornbelt Foods Inc. canning factory in Winatchee Falls, Minnesota, is running flat out, two 12-hour shifts, at the end of August 1939, producing close to 18,000 cases of canned corn daily. There's also a corporate plan afoot to cut the 25 cents an hour paid the independent rockers who haul corn from the fields to the plant while they wait to weigh-in to 20 cents. The truckers get wind of this and a few led by John Patrick (Whip) Rahilly decide they'll strike an effort to get that nickel-and-hour back. J.B. Slatter, the plant manager, gets wind of that and alerts the Head Office in Chicago, which dispatches Harry Stubbs, vice president for personnel and labor relations, a former Pinkerton agent, and four professional strike-breakers to settle this matter. Which they do, brutally, the day World War II begins. And Whip, after 10 days in jail, broke, his truck wrecked, his ex-girlfriend calling him a Jail Bird, murder on his mind, decides he'll join the U.S. Army.
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This is the second in a series of nine satiric, comedic novels (The Eddie Devlin Compendium) that follow a gaggle of characters (Edward Temperance Devlin foremost among them) from the Stock Market Crash of 1929 through the Great Depression, World War II, the post-war years, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, etc. to the Millennium and beyond. With illustrations by the author.
Books:Flacks (1973)
Bringing Chesty Home (1948)
Clyde Strikes Back (1963-64)
Deadlines (1984-85)
Old Tim's Estate (1929-35)
Replevy for a Flute (1956)
The Bloody Wet (1943-44)
The Survivors (1999-2000)
Wildcat Strike (1939)
About the Author
T.R. St. George spent 39 months in the Southwest Pacific in World War II, by turn a private and private first class in an Infantry reconnaissance platoon, a corporal and half the staff of a division newspaper and, eventually a sergeant, a reporter for YANK, the weekly Army magazine published around the world.