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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarter of a century, the Societe du bon parler franc.ais has been battling the encroachment of English. Each year it bombards French Canadians with 100,000 blotters, bearing exhortations to keep their speech pure. Students among the 27,000 members pay a one-cent fine to fellow members who catch them in solecisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: L'Arbitre est un Robber! | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Untimely. In Brooklyn, veteran Pickpocket Samuel Hemphill complained bitterly over his arrest "just at the beginning of the season," explained: "You can't make a cent all winter; people are so bundled up with coats you can't get to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

During the morning, Gootenberg addressed 200 strikers at a mass demonstration. He told the workers that the HLU backs the union's demand for a 29 cent hourly wage boost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Meat Plant Pickets Revived By HLU, Radcliffe Support | 5/12/1948 | See Source »

According to the HLU, the CIO union is striking for "a 29 cent hourly wage increase in order to bring the wages of the highest-paid third of its workers up to the Bureau of Labor Standards minimum for the urban worker--$66 per week." A packers' counter offer of nine cents has been turned down by the union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Democracy League, HLU, Bolster Picket Lines | 5/11/1948 | See Source »

...masons walked out April 1 after negotiations to renew their freshly-expired contract had failed to reach a wage figure acceptable to both the union and the contractors. The bricklayers are asking a 35 cent an hour raise over the $2.15 amount they received under the old contract. The Fuller Contracting Company has countered by proffering a 20 cent hourly increase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strike Slows Lamont Work | 4/24/1948 | See Source »

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