Word: boycott
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuskegee." The 760 signers were former Negro citizens of Tuskegee, Ala. (pop. 4,700), who last July saw their homes jigsawed out of the city limits by the state legislature. The gerrymander bill left exactly nine Negro voters within the city limits (instead of 420), touched off a Negro boycott of white merchants. "My God," said a council member as he reviewed the petition for readmittance last week.'Tf we back down now, we'll lose the whole works." The petition was promptly turned down-and with it, both sides grimly agreed, the chances of preventing the slow...
...Spoils. State Senator Sam Englehardt Jr., author of the original gerrymander, has already attempted to counter the boycott by asking for an investigation of Tuskegee's huge Veterans Administration Hospital, where nearly 2,000 (mostly Negroes) work. And up for referendum just eight days before Christmas is State Constitutional Amendment No. 18, a plan to consider abolishing Macon County (now 84% Negro) by dividing its land among five neighboring counties. A poll by the Montgomery Advertiser indicated that Macon County is in favor of the abolition amendment. If the rest of the state agrees, Tuskegee will lose its position...
...that "the pursuit of Atlantic unity has no further purpose," and stalked out, followed by the rest of the French delegation. France's harried young Premier Felix Gaillard, who had called Ambassador Houghton in at 1:30 a.m. to protest the U.S.British arms shipments, implied that France would boycott next month's critical NATO summit meeting...
...ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS by unions representing only a minority of a company's workers are illegal, says NLRB. Board found such campaigns constitute the same kind of economic pressure as picketing by minority unions to force recognition, which NLRB also ruled unfair. Rulings are expected to upset nationwide boycott of O'Sullivan Rubber Corp. by United Rubber Workers, which recently lost right to represent O'Sullivan employees...
...mourn. They were warned not to wear arm bands or to display candles in their windows. Secret police even knocked on the doors of birthday parties. Heavy chains were hung across the gate of the Magyarovar grave site of fallen Freedom Fighters. All Budapest dared to do was to boycott all cafés, cinemas and places of entertainment...