Word: avert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going on the greatest railroad strike ever called, a strike that nothing in the world can avert now, because it is a fight for life or death of the labor organizations. . . . We are not entering into the struggle with closed eyes...
...possibility of a strike such as this one is terrible to contemplate. But it is a possibility towards which we have been inevitably approaching in the last few years. No compromise can avert it, however long it may postpone it. Sooner or later we must face the test...
...declared that they would never give them up until they got full control; and though allowance had to be made for the familiar difficulty of moderate leaders who had to talk radically to hold their following, it began to look as if only complete surrender by the owners would avert trouble. There was surrender, but far from complete. The owners admit the principle of employe participation in management; the details are to be settled by a mixed commission. Whereupon the factories are to be restored, and the loud talk subsides because it is no longer needed...