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Word: breakoff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breakoff. But that did not end it. Just as WSB had predicted, as A.F.L. seamen walked off the picket lines, N.M.U. seamen-who had honored the A.F.L. strike-rushed in. A.F.L. yelled wrathfully and in some cases A.F.L. longshoremen crossed the rival lines. But Joe Curran's N.M.U., repudiating its two-month-old contract, understandably demanded just as much as A.F.L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: End of the Line | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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