Word: stayin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract (in Spain, as in Russia, any strike is illegal), the sit-downers were summarily fired. In addition, the government-run labor syndicate cut off their unemployment benefits...