Word: scab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Police sirens shrieked for reserves. Night sticks twirled, the mob swirled. It took an hour to drive the rioters out of the City Hall, down the steps. A trolley was passing on St. Charles St. The crowd jerked off its rod, stoned in its windows, punched up its "scab" motorman. For violating a Federal injunction protecting Public Service property, three men were seized by U. S. marshals, sentenced to jail by U. S. Circuit Court Judge Rufus Foster...
...bone. With quiet, orderly determination?with a self-control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark, stubborn battle of wills between a Labor Monopoly and a Capital Monopoly...
Eighteen hundred trolleymen struck in New Orleans as a result of a union contract dispute. New Orleans Public Service, Inc., imported strikebreakers from Buffalo, N. Y., attempted to run its cars. The first car out of the Canal Street barns was pelted with bricks and paving stones. The "scab" motorman quit in five minutes...
...better was The Severed Cord by Maxine Finsterwald of Manhattan, presented by a troupe from Sunnyside, Long Island. Psychologically acute, it portrayed a "scab" (strike-breaker), hated and despised by both his son and wife. When the scab's life was threatened the son was vindictive, exultant. But the wife's conscience, dependence and desire to humiliate the living man, conspired to prevent her from allowing the wretch to meet his fate...
...soldiers to fire into a crowd of workers - that was what the Governor (I. V. Kochalov) did not like to remember. The growth of his fear, of the indignation of the people, and the hatred toward him developing for personal reasons in the minds of a governess and a scab, were originally thought out by Leonid Andreyev, Russia's great, mad dramatist and story writer. Director A. Protozanov seems to feel with Andreyev that psychology is, in the long run, more important to art than politics. Shots - the Emperor's aide-de-camp taking a dose of salts...