Word: protest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a lot of grumbling, but little happened. CWA workers staged "strikes" and demonstrations. Sometimes unruly protesters got into mild scuffles with police. But Harry Hopkins stuck to his course, fired CWA workers even faster than he had promised. To prevent suffering and minimize protest, those fired were told to establish that they were in want and, having done so, were given "work relief," just enough hours each week to provide subsistence...
...four days later the Minneapolis Council was in session, and the mob came back, 6,000 strong-strong also in convictions, for the Northwest has a considerable floating labor population, a type always more bitter in protest than local unemployed. Some of its members were wearing red arm bands. They stopped a coal truck and converted its load from fuel to missiles. Crash, crash, tinkle, tinkle went the first floor windows of the City Hall. Flop went a policeman felled by a lump of coal. Hiss, hiss, hiss went tear gas bombs as the police replied. When the load...
...perhaps, a melancholy consideration that the progressive organization which attempted a War Protest meeting on Widener steps yesterday morning has not yet learned that methods which obtain in Union Square fail sadly here. A Washington Square harangue will always be met with a certain derision in the Yard; bad grammar will ever meet tutorial reprimand: "I'm sure the Prince of Wales said 'doesn...
Pacifists who walk out of their classes on Friday morning at 11 o'clock as a protest against future war will not be molested by University Hall, it was announced last night by Dean Hanford...
...club also decided to send a letter of protest to the President of Oberlin College, in Ohio, seat of the co-educational plan, in regard to his ban placed on the publication of "Progress," a journal sponsored by the Radical Club there. He objected to the magazine on the count that its general tone and methods were undesirable