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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Trucking Employers, Inc., representing nearly 1,500 trucking firms, announced a nationwide lockout in retaliation against scattered strikes by local Teamsters Union members. The lockout idled a quarter-million Teamsters and stalled trucks that carry 65% of the freight hauled on the nation's highways. If a swift agreement was not reached, the Federal Government appeared ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, calling for an 80-day truce, in which work would resume and bar gaining continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Guns of April | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...A.A.U.P. would conduct an investigation; if the committee then recommended censure it would go before the annual meeting in April; then it might appear in the AAUP BULLETIN on the list of censured institutions. This is the "sanction" which the AAUP imposes. Our strike, a defensive action against a "lockout" of union learers active in the forefront of educational reform at St. John's has aroused the entire academic, labor and intellectual world. It has made teaching and being a student at St. John's acts of shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ST. JOHN'S DISPUTE | 3/12/1966 | See Source »

...LOCKOUT, by Leon Wolff. The bitter story of the Homestead Strike in 1892, in which workers struck against the lethal working conditions at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's second-in-command at the time, retaliated with a hired army of Pinkerton men; in four months of hostilities 35 were killed, 400 injured. When the strike was finally broken, men who were not fired went back to worse conditions and slashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

When Hearst's News-American shut down, nine unions filed a complaint of an illegal lockout, and an NLRB examiner backed them up. The News-American plans to take the case to court, but meanwhile the bill for back pay owed to employees is piling up at the rate of over $125,000 a week. If the courts rule against the News-American, the paper will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stubbornness in Baltimore | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...LOCKOUT by Leon Wolff. 297 pages. Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War for Homestead | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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