Word: localize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...palaver was beginning to make some of the steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep putting the cork back in the bottle." Philip Murray admitted there was "widespread restlessness," and added flatly: "This is the last postponement...
Washington strategists were optimistic. "We had to get them out of Washington," explained a Labor Department conciliator. "Murray was too far out on the limb to crawl back and the steel companies were fast getting into the same position on the opposite limb. Local bargaining may turn up something that can be made to fit the entire industry...
...Toronto, Ont. last week, slender, jug-eared L. S. Buckmaster returned from four months in limbo to win re-election as president of the C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...
...four-man panel split down the middle at Rindge Tech last night--two university professors defending and two prominent local politicians opposing the right of Communists to teach in American schools. The discussion launched the current season of the Law School Forum...
Although the varsity eleven will be at Baker Field, the local area won't be entirely devoid of Crimson action tomorrow. Five miles away at Medford, Bruce Munro's soccer team will open its 1949 season against Tufts...