Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strong-headed, the mill operators prepared to buck the strikers by a lockout. Dr. Arthur Mothwurf, president of the mills, declared that production would cease "until labor conditions became stabilized." Great was the anxiety of Elizabethton boosters who had seen the German rayon factories put their tiny town on the U. S. industrial...
...lockout" (so called by the miners) consisted in the posting by the mine owners of an offer of work at a wage less than that which the miners had previously announced they would accept...
Meanwhile the British Trade Union Council announced plans for a "general strike," to take effect unless the owners "withdrew" their so-called "lockout" notices-the purport of the Council's manifesto being, of course, a threat to strike unless employment was offered to miners at a higher rate...
...that the general strike is over, the workers have gained more by the terms of its settlement than they originally asked. They have been guaranteed that there would be no further wage reduction, the lockout order would be withdrawn, and a commission with delegates from the miners appointed to work out a plan of reorganization in the mining industry...
...their former jobs involves both time and a high degree of executive ability. Credit is due to Premier Baldwin who, against the opposition of his own party, brought pressure to bear on employers to take back the strikers on the old scale of pay. Without such intervention, a universal lockout might easily have succeeded the general strike, an eventuality appalling in the possibilities presented for violence. By his move, the Premier prevented a martyrdom of labor which would have done much to secure it the sympathy lost upon instigating the enormous walkout...