Word: sitdowners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bare Knuckles. Returning to Detroit in 1935, Reuther plunged into union work, and organized a U.A.W. local whose membership grew from 78 to 30,000 in one year. Leader of Detroit's first big sitdown strike at the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Plant, he also played a major role in the U.A.W.'s unionization of Ford. Reuther's bitterest foes were the U.A.W.'s Communists. He won his first major battle with the Communists in 1946, when he took the U.A.W.'s presidency away from R. J. Thomas, whom the Communists had supported. He clinched...
...Communist doctors and medical orderlies at Koje hospital staged a sitdown strike for better food, the right to take regular sunbaths, and the removal of South Korean guards. "Damned absurd!" roared General Boatner. He ordered the strikers to report to him; when they balked, he clapped them behind bars...
...enemy negotiators showed some signs of irresolution, even of alarm. North Korea's General Nam Il complained that the U.N. was trying to impose its plan by threats, that the U.N. stand left no room for "negotiation." The Peking radio said the U.N. attitude amounted to a "sitdown strike...
When the armies of the U.N. and the Communists were settled down in the limited Korean lull last fall, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet was worried about stagnation's effect on his Eighth Army. "A 'sitdown' army is subject to collapse at the first sign of an enemy effort," he said then. "An army that stops to tie its shoestrings seldom regains the initiative...
Slight, short (5 ft. 5 in.) Lou Stark won his name by covering such stories as the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the pitched battles in Harlan County, the sitdown strikes of the '303. Whatever he covered (typing out his copy hunt & peck, then checking and re-checking until his deadline-conscious editors squirmed uneasily), he won the confidence and respect of both sides without ever favoring either. When the accuracy of an exclusive Stark story about coal bargaining was questioned two years ago, Illinois' Paul Douglas said on the Senate floor: "I have never known Lou Stark to make...