Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt gave the job to his wife's good friend, Frances Perkins. When Postmaster General Farley recommended Ed McGrady as an assistant secretary, Madam Secretary Perkins decided she did not want him. She changed her mind after he, as an NRAdministrator, had settled the 1933 coal strike. Thereafter as her assistant he not only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member. It was no more than natural if Madam Perkins was nettled when labor leaders who had known Ed McGrady for years turned to him instead...
...year for smoothing over labor difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking his successor, a man who, among other things, must be, as Ed McGrady was, acceptable to and trusted by C.I.O...
...long-suppressed resentment of Poland's 20,000,000 virtually disenfranchised, illiterate, poverty-stricken peasants against tyrannical army rule rumbled into action. The Peasant Party- forced underground by the reactionary army coterie around the late Marshal Joseph Pilsudski-emerged into the open, called a 10-day peasant strike which last week was in full swing...
...their own. Last week, gaunt, rag-clad peasants, enraged at individuals who profited by delivering foodstuffs, took to barring the roads, overturning market trucks, destroying farm produce. Reports seeping through the iron press censorship told of sporadic clashes with police, with 56 casualties the result. Before long the strike took an anti-Semitic turn. Roving peasant bands attacked Jewish markets, set upon Jewish peddlers handling farm products...
Socialist Party workers egged the peasants on by promising support for their cause. At Cracow, factory and transport workers staged a 24-hour general strike as a sympathetic gesture. "Solidarity strikes" were called in the Trzebinia and Chrzanow industrial districts...