Word: lockouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day 100 students and three teachers defied the Simoni lockout by reopening two schools. Said a pupil: "It is the will of the students. . . . This is the new democratic sort of school...
...minimum of two months, work stoppages of any sort are prohibited by law. Penalties for violations are stiff: $20 for each day a striker is illegally absent from work, $200 a day for unions which call an illegal strike, $500 a day for employers who attempt an illegal lockout...
...Amalgamated's 15,000 glove and neckwear workers, its 15,000 retail salesmen and journeymen tailors, and 25,000 laundry workers. Never, in all the negotiations, had it been necessary to dig up the unfortunate "relic." (Thirty-one-year-old Amalgamated has not had a general strike or lockout since 1921.) But the results were there...
Leonine John Lewis, still king in the jungle of U.S. collieries, made a regal gesture toward the nation. Although he had once disclaimed all responsibility for the soft coal strike (TIME, Oct. 22), at another time had called it a "lockout," the wave of his imperious paw somehow brought...
Management and labor, after four years of armed truce, had taken up their ancient weapons-the lockout and the strike-and once again were back at the old game of beating each other around the ears...