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Bergoff's business has been hit hard by Depression. Therefore the Bibb job, though small, was welcome. But it turned out badly. Georgia's Governor Talmadge declared martial law, drove the strike breakers out of the State after only two days' work. Bergoff failed to collect full pay from Bibb. Then eight strikebreakers complained to New York State's Bureau of Labor Welfare that Bergoff had not paid them in full...
...Tvvo and a half months after the Terre Haute strike was "settled," the town was still under martial law last week. Nevertheless a metal plant was bombed. Elsewhere in the U. S. Labor showed its teeth. Following the assassination of a Kansas City truckmen's organizer, all Kansas City building trades unionists called a one-day demonstration strike. More important, 9,000 Gulf Coast stevedores walked out in an effort to force union recognition at New Orleans and raise the general wage scale...
...mind. Brusquely he told off five high officers of Army, Navy, police, air and tank corps to stop Premier Tsaldaris on his way to work. When the officers left the Premier, they had his resignation. General Kondylis quietly filled the streets of Athens with soldiers, declared nation-wide martial law and a state of siege. Then he personally proclaimed that Greece was a monarchy and he its Regent...
Moving fast. Premier-Botanist Tosheff had 30 Army officers. 30 politicians jailed on charges of high treason. Martial law was declared, Sofia's streets were cleared at rifle point after a 10 p. m. curfew, and the Cabinet stayed on in session getting telephone reports from police headquarters on new arrests until the total had reached 255, including former Premier Colonel Gueorguieff and a delegation of returned Bulgarian exiles from Yugoslavia...
Next day Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson moved the besieged non-unionists out under police guard, shut down the Flour City plant under threat of martial...