Word: nieuport
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started in the Nieuport (airplanes) and Lavalette (metallurgical) plants in the Paris suburbs. Workmen stopped their machines and posted one-third of their number to hold the factories against police. They demanded 48-hour wages for a 40-hour week, a closed shop, no married women workers with employed husbands, no employer reprisals. The directors refused to bargain until the workmen came out. Police sat tight...