Word: sitdowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...balloting sessions, each Socialist member gets up slowly as his name is called, shuffles toward the rostrum with the shortest steps possible. Where it takes 230 conservatives only 15 minutes to vote, 120 Socialists consume as much as an hour and a half. Cow-walking is combined with sitdown strikes in Diet corridors, deliberate traffic jams, boycotts, and picketing to prevent the Speaker from taking his seat. Through these tactics, the Socialists force all-night sessions, hoping that the worn-out government men will have to give in somewhere along the line...
...Government gives in to the Negro pressure group, 15 years from now my children may be resorting to the same tactics of staging sitdown strikes, launching economic boycotts, and browbeating politicians with threats of violence because of inequality of opportunity for whites...
...labor unrest that has swept Dictator Francisco Franco's Spain this spring. In Barcelona the Hispano Suiza airplane-engine plant recently laid off 150 employees following a series of work slowdowns, was forced to hire them back when j.ooo Olivetti factory employees threatened a sympathy walkout. Two sitdown strikes in a single week disrupted work in a Seville textile plant. Six hundred Madrid metalworkers have been threatening similar trouble after stubbornly refusing to sign a new contract...
...cops from their mounts, hurled horse manure at them. Some young workers climbed onto the stone figures around the entrance, and one Communist agitator even hauled up a Red flag. When a police cordon forced them away from the buildings after six charges, hundreds of demonstrators staged a sitdown strike in the road...
Wirtz compared the current era of labor-management crisis* with the period just after World War I. the sitdown strikes of the 1930s. and the coal-rail-steel strikes of the late 1940s. Said he: "It doesn't matter any more, really, how much the hurt has been real, or has been exaggerated. A decision has been made. And that decision is that if collective bar gaining can't produce peaceful settlements of these controversies, the public will...