Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first was the U.S. maritime strike. The second was the great sugar strike. Here Bridges had copied one of crafty old John L. Lewis' tricks. Just as John L. had expanded his Mine Workers by taking farmers, railroaders, etc. in his U.M.W. District 50, so Harry had organized Hawaii's sugar workers into his C.I.O. International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Then they had struck...
Some people said that vindictive old John L. Lewis itched to hotfoot the Administration on Nov. 5. Some said that crafty old John L. Lewis wanted to get a wage oar in for his United Mine Workers before the rival C.I.O. began its new race for raises. Still others said that, after five months of relative personal anonymity (while his U.M.W. grubbed along on its Government contract), egomaniacal...
...Prime Minister Smuts summoned his Cabinet, later declared: "I'm not unduly concerned . . . the strike was not caused by legitimate grievances but by agitators." Immediately after the meeting drastic measures were taken to break the strike. Armed police descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers. Backed by a law forbidding gatherings of more than 20 natives on mine property, police quickly smashed mass meetings. Other cops swept through the Communists' and Springbok Legion's (a progressive veterans' organization) offices throughout...
...Over De Gaulle's resignation as President, he sniffed contemptuously: "I stayed on when the difficulties were harder to bear." De Gaulle, he insisted, "wants to play the part of Napoleon," but his reputation as a military strategist stems only from the fact that "he explained battles of mine so well...
Also, implications of an election-eve walkout of 400,000 coal miners came up at the President's cabinet meeting and Lewis' mine workers journal proclaimed: pay controls are doomed...