Word: local
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equipment workers began streaming out of International Harvester's big plant, some 70 U.A.W. members were waiting at the gates with organizing leaflets. Local F.E.W. bosses pulled their workers back inside; when they came out again, they came out swinging-crowbars, steel hinges, and slabs of scrap iron...
Afterward F.E.W.'s local vice president protested: "Our boys just started coming out innocently, swinging their dinner pails, and these goons got sore when we didn't lap up their pamphlets." Countered U.A.W.'s Regional Director Pat Great-house: "We were just being peaceful. Would we pick a fight in our overcoats? We ain't scared and we're coming back...
Within one hour after midnight one night last week, every bus, streetcar and subway train on Philadelphia's 1,500 miles of transit system had been rolled to garage, barn or yard and stopped. Local 234 of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union was on strike. Next morning Philadelphians got to work as best they could, through four inches of snow. The Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads ran extra trains; hundreds of private car pools went into operation; big companies used their truck fleets to pick up employees; and thousands of people simply walked...
...Australia, the Rev. Colin Craven-Sands thought highly of British fox hunting. "I had seen pictures of hunting scenes," he remembers, "and I liked the pretty dress worn by hunting folk." Shortly after taking up his duties in a small Cornwall parish, Mr. Craven-Sands one day saw the local Four Burrow Hunt bring a fox to ground. What he thought he saw and heard changed his mind about fox hunting...
Elsewhere in Britain last week, other blood-sportsmen stood bloodied but unbowed before their detractors. In Wiltshire, a meeting of local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge...