Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Akron police "let a nonstriking minority in and out." Actually 85% and better of Goodyear employees were on the job the day following the so-called night of rioting, and the U. R. W. did not declare the disturbance a strike until after the riot had occurred. U. R. W. leadership has since raised hell with its membership for unauthorized stoppages of work, declaring no more will be tolerated...
Five of the six Tech students arrested in the Memorial Day riot at their plant have been placed on strict probationary, ejected from the Tech dormitories, and deprived of the privileges of scholarships and loans, it was revealed yesterday...
Intermittently since then the old Jamaica story of low pay and virtual serfdom, has cropped up. Early last month sugar plantation workers rioted, caused several days' disturbances. Last week economic discontent reached the general-strike and general-riot stage in the island's capital, Kingston...
...that Hague's tactics had spread to the constituency of neighbor Mayor Ellenstein. "I watched this disturbance for ten minutes and at any time the police could have broken it up," said Mr. Thomas, and his charge is a serious one. Deplorable enough were the hoodlums who caused the riot and the War veterans who tried in vain to cancel Mr. Thomas's speaking permit, but when responsible police officers apparently acted in collusion with the mob, it may be assumed that Haguism had made an impression on Newark's public officials...
...surprising in view of Mr. Thomas's indictment of Governor Moore as "only Hague's Charlie McCarthy." In any, case the isolated curiosity must be checked before its "tyranny in the guise of patriotism" becomes a vogue in American municipalities. Just as the Hague slogans displayed at the Newark riot read "Let All Russian Radicals and Foreigners Go Back to Russia," let Mayor Hague's inimitable style of patriotism be restricted to Germany and Italy, where it now flourishes...