Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remark concerned the bitter, prolonged strife of industry and labor. He and Mediator Charles P. Taft, who last week sailed for Europe leaving the steel strike to stew in its own juice, had agreed that the public feeling toward both parties to the dispute could be summed up in one Shakespearean phrase, "A plague o' both your houses." Was this double-damnation his own feeling? The President declined to affirm or deny. It was what he thought the public thought. Since good politicians model their opinions after the public's, it was fair to deduce that Franklin Roosevelt...
Senator. They was all excited." Officer George Higgins, when confronted with a picture of himself manhandling a woman, cried: "I didn't strike her. Like a gentleman I shoved...
...soon as the La Follette Committee had shown the film, Paramount released it for public exhibition, explaining that strike emotions had now cooled enough. Though the picture was promptly banned in Chicago by the police censor, the public release was. if anything, more anti-climactic than the showing by the committee, which had the benefit of a slow-motion reprint. The main clash is over so quickly that the impression is simply one of furious confusion. All taken from the police side, it shows no fighting closeups, none of the strikers in action. Audiences last week did not begin...
...last week was also a week in which, with strike action halted, C.I.O. could consolidate its gains, refresh its leadership, impose discipline. And it was the week in which, though halted elsewhere, C.I.O. at last cracked the Inland sector of "Little Steel's" united front...
...water supply not only threw 6,000 men out of work once more but raised 2,000 ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk." The most determined of the two, James Mark...