Word: baldwinism
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First seed of the grievance was sown following Britain's only general (nationwide) strike in 1926, when Baldwin's flustered Parliament passed the Trades Disputes Act. The Act outlawed all general strikes. Because its terms were so vague, it allowed the courts scope for declaring almost any strike illegal. The trade unions found it an elastic defense against their plans and programs...
Anticlimax. In Raleigh, N.C., Slayer John S. Baldwin, awaiting execution, learned the Governor had commuted his sentence, promptly sent a message of protest, threatened to sue him for "interfering with the court's action...
...sagging Waterloo Bridge-first within the London County Council, which owned it; then against London taxpayers, who feared they would have to pay for the new bridge; against the Times, which allowed: "London does not need and positively must be spared a new six-lane bridge"; against Stanley Baldwin's Government, which refused a building subsidy. Churchill's Government reversed that decision, will pay 60% of the building bill...
Some of the outstanding men in the meet were: for Eliot Morgan, Withington and Goldberg; for Dunster De Rham, Allen, and Loos; for Leverett Marshal and Baldwin; for Dudley MacKinnon; and for Kirkland Pincus, Morgan, and Rich...
Motor Co. (guns and tank parts), 7,000 C.I.O. autoworkers refused to cross the line. At Yellow Truck & Coach Co. (Army trucks), 3,000 autoworkers turned back. At Baldwin Rubber Co., 600 C.I.O. rubber workers walked out. There were street fights...