Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocos had been riding high. Comrade Benoit Frachon, kingpin of the C.G.T., had formed a National Central Strike Committee representing 20 striking unions (out of the C.G.T.'s total of 38) and was issuing daily communiques. Two million workers were idle. More than a million tons of coal production had been lost; 253 ships were tied up in French ports, more than half of them laden with coal and oil. Since most of the rank & file preferred to remain at work, as the secret strike votes indicated, the Frachon committee met this opposition with violence and by denouncing...
...plans which fell into the hands of the Ministry of the Interior, and which the police believed were genuine, the Reds planned to: 1) isolate Paris by rail and postal strikes; 2) cut off the south of France and there create a liaison zone with Italian Communists; 3) paralyze coal production in the north; 4) "create disturbances in key towns, notably Marseille, Lyon, St-Etienne, Limoges, Poitiers, Bordeaux, Toulouse...
...Statesmen. The hard core of the opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends...
...voting, which usually takes 30 minutes, lasted four hours. Next day, opposition members broke up a committee studying the coal bill. Manfully 57-year-old Banboku Ono, general secretary of the Liberal Party (which is conservative), slugged it out with the 49-year-old Socialist chairman of the House Steering Committee, Inejiro Asanuma. Other members-plus the stenographers-joined the battle, using notebooks for ammunition...
...after-effects of the tactical toot set in, other parliamentarians felt ashamed. Last week the Diet 1) finally passed the coal bill; 2) agreed that further deliberations should be conducted with "extreme self-containment"; 3) adopted a resolution sponsored by the women Diet members prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Diet restaurant...