Word: lockout
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...bill is devoted entirely to a statement of what the employer cannot do. Not a single sentence prohibits the employee or the labor unions from doing anything as, for example, exercising coercive influence or campaigning among the other employees in a shop. Indeed, while a lockout by an employer is specifically prohibited and is to be made punishable, the new bill gives the workers complete immunity in the following sentence...
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...Government has good reason to be jumpy. For the last two months Norway has been weathering a nationwide lockout imposed by well-organized employers to force superorganized labor unions to accept wage cuts...
...Trades Union Disputes Bill is an amendment to the act of 1927, which (in reaction to the general strike of 1926) declared any strike or lockout illegal if intended to coerce the Government or intimidate the community. This obviously might be interpreted to make any sympathetic strike illegal. The new bill, personally backed by Scot MacDonald, would make strikes illegal only when their "primary object" was to intimidate the community or coerce the Government...
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...