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Word: lockout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Employers of the building trades announced a new schedule of wages and hours to come into force on April 14. If the terms are not accepted a lockout may result, in which 500,000 workers will be affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Industrial Crisis | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

...have such a problem. Everyone in China is organized; the various kinds of laborers have been formed into a sort of guild unions, and the employers have their associations. Whenever there is any dispute as to wages, hours, or conditions of working, instead of striking, or declaring a lockout, committees of the employers and laborers immediately concerned meet and thrash the matter out between themselves. There are no so-called walking delegates in China. Both sides abide by the decision of the committees, and all disputes are smoothed over in this manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. J. C. FERGUSON DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF CHINA | 5/11/1921 | See Source »

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