Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee called on the mill owners to send representatives, and through Albert Weisbord, the young Harvard law school graduate who is leading the strike, invited a committee of the workers to appear. When the meeting came, Mr. Weisbord turned up at the head of the workers' delegation. The Governor frowned on Mr. Weisbord. He was not a worker, and the committee had specified workers. The Governor declared that Mr. Weisbord had been accused of Communism and would have nothing to do with the strikeleader. So the negotiations were broken off before they began. The strikers then held a mass meeting...
...twelfth week of the strike of the mill workers in Passaic, N. J., ended, and the thirteenth began. Time, whether the duration of a strike or of a man's life, does not seem long when it is measured in weeks, but three months is a long time for a strike to last?so long that newspaper readers who know how the Passaic strike began with the walk-out of a handful of workers from the Botany Worsted Mills, how it spread until it included some 10,000 employes of other Jersey mills, how the grey-faced men and girls...
Children in Passaic picketed the schools to prevent their classmates from going to class. "No school today," said their banners. From their guarded offices, mill-owners announced that the mills would reopen immediately, that strikers who wanted to go back to work would be given police-protection day and night. Droves of police stood ready...
...trainer and "brother," a Malay lad named Ali, is with him through thick and thin, from the night the bellowing tuskers mill and trample in their first stockade after crushing the life out of Ali's father. Together the two weather a Pacific typhoon; a plunge from a railroad trestle in their boxcar; a 100-mile race against an Arab horse; a pulling-match with four draft horses; a cinema tiger-hunt that turns serious...
...address an orderly gathering of strikers on private property marks the culmination of the reign of frightfulness in Bergen County, scene of the so-called Passaic strike. The methods by which Mr. Thomas was seized are typical of those adopted by the police, probably at the instigation of the mill ownrs...