Word: railings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settling strikes. Last week the commandants of the three Western powers pitched in to help the Russians get an agreement. The strikers are demanding all of their pay in West marks because most of them live and work in the Western sectors. The Russians, who control the entire city rail transit system, have offered 60% of the workers' pay in West marks. Last week Ernst Reuter, Socialist Mayor of (West) Berlin, appeared at a strike meeting and offered to add 15% from city funds to the Russian offer. He told the strikers that the U.S., British and French commandants...
...Labor's "full-employment" dikes. But as the cabinet held another emergency meeting to deal with wildcat strikers, the strikers themselves showed signs of coming to heel. In Liverpool 8,000 dockers voted to go back to work. For the fifth successive Sunday, striking locomotive crews dislocated rail traffic; but the stoppage was less severe than on previous weekends, for some crews worked in defiance of the strike leaders' pleas...
...State of Siege. Before the fighting ended at Siglo Veinte, workers at three other big mines went on strike. The country's rail workers walked out in sympathy. In La Paz, more than 8,000 employees of the capital's factories and utilities stopped work. The government declared a state of siege (the seventh in two years), called all able-bodied men from 19 to 50 to the colors. An attempt by M.N.R. exiles to seize and paralyze the rail center of Villazon, near the Argentine border, was nipped...
...railroad siding, General Vladimir Petrov, chief of Russian rail transportation in Berlin, sweated in his greatcoat as he directed other Russian officers who hooked engines to stalled freight cars. In its second week, the railroad workers' strike against their Communist bosses had effectively tied up Berlin rail transport...
...They demanded all their pay in West marks-the demand which had precipitated, the strike. When Russian violence failed, it looked as if the strike might go on for a while. U.S. and British planes stepped up their airlift loads to 8,000 tons a day. Berliners called the rail strike "the little blockade...