Word: chatham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trafalgar Traveler (June). In Chatham, England, midwatch sentries at ancient St. Mary's Naval Barracks complained of being bothered nightly by a one-legged mariner of Lord Nelson...
...impersonality, Churchill identified himself with his imperial cause. In a peculiarly Churchillian passage he said: "I have always followed [Burma] affairs with attention because it was my father* who was responsible for the annexation of Burma. ... It was said in the [18th Century] days of the great administrator, Lord Chatham, that you had to be up very early in the morning in order not to miss some acquisition of territory. . . . The present Government is distinguished for the opposite set of experiences . . . the decline and fall of the British Empire...
...peace in the labor-management strife. Some 55,000 key workers in Canadian industry were on strike, or were ready to walk out. In steel, 15,000 steelworkers were negotiating for a 19½ raise, with another 10,000 steel-fabricating workers waiting on the outcome. In Windsor and Chatham 3,500 Chrysler Corp. workers struck last week for a $2-a-day raise. Some 6,000 General Motors workers may follow them out this week. To all unions, the 15? boost for the lumbermen was the minimum they wanted...
Trafalgar Traveler. In Chatham, England, sentries at ancient St. Mary's Naval Barracks asked that the midnight watch be doubled, complained of being bothered nightly by a one-legged mariner of Lord Nelson...
Chrysler workers in the Windsor and Chatham plants voted to take a strike ballot on the company's refusal to grant a $2-a-day increase and a 40-hour week. But in eastern Ontario 2,000 dairy farmers, representing 40,000 producers, threatened to call a milk strike on June 15 if their prices were not raised $3 per 100 lbs. There was only one note of cheer. The two-month-old strike of 400 National Brewery employes in Montreal finally ended last week. The strikers went back to work, though they had been granted none of their...