Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jams that threatened serious food shortages. The Glasgow strikers accepted a Government settlement. The Tower Bridge also was opened to traffic again: the Government moved in Royal Navy crews to operate it, and workmen redecorating the Guildhall for a "Welcome Home" dinner for the Royal Family walked out in protest. In Durham, 20 striking enginemen shut down 15 collieries which employ 20,000 miners...
...Loyal Opposition had a few gasps of protest left in it before Labor's guillotine (TIME, March 17) chopped off the usual procedure of full discussion in the Mother of Parliaments. Tory Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe used the last few seconds before the deadline to tick off a scathing objection to "a sorry parody of legislative efforts." Then the chopper fell. Grey-wigged Speaker Colonel Clifton Brown cut in; there would be no further debate. The Government's 92 amendments would never even be discussed...
...Government lobby, members chorused Scotland's Loch Lomond, Yorkshire's On Ilkley Moor and the Welsh Cwm Rhondda. But when jubilant Laborites swung their voices into Socialism's anthem, The Red Flag, Tory Sir Gifford Fox rose in angry protest. Laborites shouted, "It's May Day," and pointed to the clock; it had ticked past midnight. The Speaker announced that he had no jurisdiction over what the honorable members might sing in the lobbies...
...time for a switch. A communique announced: "The political bureau has decided to support without reserve the legitimate demands [of the strikers]." The Communist paper Humanite, which had at first denounced the wildcat strike as a "provocation" by "troublemaking elements," now referred to it as "a disciplined, justified protest of the exploited workers...
Again, the Christian Science Moniter, while agreeing with the broad outlines of what Mr. Wallace says, can only muster the feeble argument that Mr. Wallace is "making it harder" to put over the liberals' protest. With even Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (The Naton, April 5) declaring that "one must prefer" James Burnham's clearly faseist program, I, for one, rejoice that the liberal protest is in the hands of one with the sincerity and courage of Mr. Wallace. Durham M. Miller...