Word: dagenham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London last week, one bookmaker phoned another and said, "Something's up at Dagenham today. I don't know what it is or what race, but something's up." It was indeed. At the Greyhound Stadium in London's thriving industrial suburb of Dagenham, a determined band of bettors was about to attempt one of the greatest coups in the history of gambling...
...this, the national unions which represent Dagenham's 32,000 hourly workers called for an official strike to start...
...union officials reckoned without the women of Dagenham, who were fed up with strikes and wanted their husbands' paychecks for Christmas shopping...
...Evelyn Carter, the 29-year-old wife of a Ford machinist, 150 Dagenham wives staged a meeting at which they threatened to serve their husbands nothing but sandwiches for Sunday dinner if the strike went through. A public-opinion poll showed that 81% of Dagenham felt the same way. Union leaders got the message, decided to negotiate rather than strike...
Fostering Chaos. Tough Allen Barke, 58, has thus scored a notable break through at Dagenham: Ford workers have been forced to recognize at last that wildcat strikes can no longer be called with impunity. But Ford's basic difficulty at Dagenham is not yet solved. Dagenham executives blame their labor troubles variously on Communists, the failure of the national unions to control local shop stewards, and widespread resentment among the workers at U.S. ownership. However, General Motors' experience at its Vauxhall plant in Luton, north of London, suggests that there is more to the story...