Word: strike
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...strike among the coal miners of western Pennsylvania has begun at Monongahela...
...moulding shops at Troy, N. Y., but one or two, closed yesterday. 700 moulders are on a strike, and 2000 men are thus thrown out of employment...
...Union Rolling Mill strike at Chicago has ended in a compromise, and the furnaces start today. The strikers gained an increase of 12 to 15 per cent., but agree to work twelve hours...
...strike at the Pacific Mills yesterday was extended to all the cotton spinners. The strikers now number 450, and are firm in their refusal to resume work at the present rates. The Pacific Mills employ altogether 5500 persons, and have a property of about...
...Dartmouth speaks of the habit of punning as "paranourasia" and says : "The inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds...