Word: dock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prosecution at Tokyo's International Military Tribunal for the Far East rested its case last week. The defense went through the formality of a motion for dismissal, then buckled down to the task of defending the 26 Japanese in the dock (including. ex-Prime Minister Tojo and ex-Foreign Minister Shigemitsu). The charges: "Crimes against peace, murder, conventional war crimes and crimes against humanity...
...rations at all) failed to move the striking truckmen. But "Operation Eatables" (the soldiers' name for their assignment to trucks and markets) did move the men & women who handle London's food. When the troops appeared, they walked off their jobs. So, eventually, did thousands of T.G.W.U. dock workers in resentment against the use of "blacklegs [strikebreakers] in uniform...
...temporary, would allow Patel to turn his attention to the growing labor strife. Late last summer, when a famine impended, a Communist-led strike had tied up south India railroads; a nationwide 25-day postal strike in July was also Communist-inspired. Two weeks ago Karachi dock workers walked off ten grain ships for ten days to get a wage of 94? daily. As a result of the stoppage, the rice ration in New Delhi was cut from twelve to eight ounces. In New Delhi 100,000 children were out of school because of a teachers' strike...
...last year, Eugene has taken things easy. He has let Ed, president since 1937, take over completely the operation of Moran's 31 tugs. It also has eight under charter, and operates twelve 194-ft. ocean-going tugs for the Government. It has contracts to dock most of the big liners, including the Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth...
...Boss. There was not much doubt along the dockfront's rough-&-tumble Calle Desamparados about who called the play that shut down the Seatrain. Boss Arcelio Iglesias, Cuba's No. 4 Communist, had knit 9.000 dock wallopers into a powerful Maritime Federation that usually got what it wanted. With many more hands than jobs they contrived to shorten hours, specialize functions, make work. Their weapon: the slowdown...