Word: slowdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
Horrified Japanese blamed Red agitation for inspiring the murder. Communist leaders backtracked, delayed strike and slowdown plans on all fronts. Sharp public indignation and the threat of a showdown with either SCAP or the government did not fit into the plans of dapper, greying Communist Strategist Sanzo Nozaka...
Meanwhile, union members, disappointed by nationalization, were becoming increasingly hard for their government to handle. Last week, a wildcat strike of railway workers against the nationalized railway system was spreading. Liverpool dockers were out, and London truckers were engaged in a slowdown. In London, even the men who wash milk bottles had struck...
...Slowdown by Noon. "On broad, dusty Chungshan Lu, Nanking's main street, a pretty Chinese girl, trim in a white sweater, cycled by, said good-morning in perfect English, and serenely rode...
Special Treatment. They called a "progressive" strike (an hour's work stoppage the first night, 1½ hours the second, etc.). Eva Perón's Democracia got special treatment: a stoppage plus a slowdown. For strikebreakers, Eva called in convicts from Buenos Aires' federal penitentiary. The convicts refused to work. Democracia was among the first papers to suspend publication...