Word: lockouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were a onetime orphanage and two warehouses. In this slapped-together campus, the Little Rock Private School Corp. got classes started for 241 white seniors, promised 258 juniors that classes would start this week, boasted of a bankroll of $100,000. Negroes, naturally, are barred. See EDUCATION, The Long Lockout...
...Ford and Chrysler still show no signs of breaking their united front, have informally agreed that all will close down if one is struck. While the U.A.W. would undoubtedly cry "Lockout!", the companies have legal precedent, of a sort, on their side.* The companies contend that the U.A.W. cannot afford a strike because unemployment and lagging dues have held the union's strike-war chest at $37.8 million, enough for only six weeks of benefit payments in an industry-wide walkout...
...Lockout. For his part, the President, convinced that nothing had changed in his chief of staff, was prepared to ride out the storm. But it is likely that both he and Adams have underestimated the storm's force, for across the U.S. a hurricane of criticism swept from the public, the newspapers, cartoonists, jokesters and GOPoliticians. The Democrats, lashed for Truman-era corruption* in the 1952 campaign, were confident that no Republican would dare use the corruption issue again...
...present work stoppage as a strike, since they claim most of the independent contractors have in effect agreed to the new rates since early March. The Secretary of the Union charged that the "refusal of the Fuller Company to comply with the new wage rates is tantamount to a lockout...
...British Columbia's suburban community of Maillardville, 16 miles southeast of Vancouver, two Roman Catholic parochial schools shut their doors last week and turned their 800 pupils over to the local public-school system. The Catholics had been turned down in their request for free transportation, and the lockout was their reply...