Word: scabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discontent and darkness bring to a head what might have become a riot. When the men came back to work after the holiday Carl had fired a crowd of the best workers, among them Hagen. A strike followed, feeling grew uglier day by day. Finally the police shot a scab by mistake, thinking he was a picketer. One of the strikers' leaders was arrested for the crime. When Carl and his higher-ups decided that the police were not giving them enough help they armed a posse, drove the picketing strikers from the factory. By well-planned accident Hagen...
...Texas judge. For years he edited the Daily Worker, drew savage cartoons for the old Masses. On a soap box before the NRA factory, he yelled at its workers: "Comrades! Most of you are non-union members. You must earn a living. But don't scab on your fellow workers. Your factory carries a picture of the Blue Eagle, of course. They all do. But the Blue Eagle is a blue buzzard for the workers. So come on out and strike...
...Paris to the unexciting post of Minister of Agriculture (1922-24). He made it exciting, became the idol of French farmers. No Minister of Agriculture before or since has shut out of France so much meat because of hoof & mouth disease, so many potatoes on account of scab, so much butter because of "taints." More important, during this period Minister of Agriculture Chéron won the firm friendship of his exalted chief, Premier Raymond Poincaré, "Savior of the Franc...
...mule barn boss had crawled to safety in the cold boiler. The besieged had had no food for two days; they sipped dirty water from the boiler pipes. At any second they expected to be rushed from their stronghold by a massed attack of unionists, long enraged at their "scab" operation of the Dixie Bee pending negotiation of a new wage scale...
...stayed on the Ile de France. France had just slapped an embargo on all "fresh fruits, live plants or parts of live plants from the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan." The embargo was officially based on the discovery of San José scale, an infectious fruit scab, on recent shipments of apples and pears from the U. S. Plant-exporting China and Japan were too busy with their own troubles to protest. The fruitful Dominions took it quietly. But roars of protest rose from U. S. Chambers of Commerce. In the last two years U. S. apple...