Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent typical strike at Naples (called by Communist Boss Clemente Maglietta), the strikers quickly seized the post office, telephone exchange and radio station. The strike's purpose: to protest rising prices. Strikes for similarly popular causes (better schools, housing, recreational facilities) easily win the workers' support and serve at the same time to worsen the economic position, for which the Government is blamed...
...Government got the strike ended in its eleventh day, but it was severely clawed by the wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed for more than nine months a settlement of their demands for a 44-hour week and overtime pay increases (highest wage of a London trucker: about $22 a week*). Even the Government's delayed and reluctant decision to use troops...
...have developed some new bargaining techniques. They locked a labor inspector in an office and made a factory manager stand bareheaded in the sun for four hours until he agreed to reinstate four discharged employees. When the district magistrate ordered the arrest of 100 labor leaders, workers marched in protest, women in front. Police used lathis. Workers threw stones. When the police opened fire, six were killed. Last week 100,000 Cawnpore workers were still...
...open (except for druggists and undertakers). The Institute of Arts and Sciences had closed its classes. A thousand federal troops patrolled the streets, blockaded roads leading into the city. Most of the 35,000 inhabitants-with women & children in the van-paraded the streets in the sort of protest against local political bosses that was sweeping Mexico like a grass fire...
...disarmament, each of them was all for amateurism, in football, but didn't want to be the first: to try it. One who could discuss the matter with authority was Notre Dame's president, Father John J. Cavanaugh. Said he last week: "I suspect the reformers protest too much. . . . We at Notre Dame make no apologies about wanting winners...