Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senators 6 Shadows, Uprising in the Senate for one of the briefest speeches of his loquacious career, California's venerable Hiram Johnson cried: ''The most ominous thing in our national economic life today is the Sit-Down strike. It is bad for the Government and in the long run it is worse for Labor. If the Sit-Down strike is carried on with the connivance or the sympathy of the public authorities, then warning signals are out, and down that road lurks DICTATORSHIP...
With the formation of a committee of arrangements, the Student Union once again turns its thoughts to its annual peace strike scheduled for April 22. Having received the official blessing of Dean Hanford, the committee is now searching for suitable speakers, who are about as scarce as angels' visits...
...Union that it has decided to repeat the method used so successfully last year. Last April, a well-attended meeting was held in Sanders Theatre, addressed by Professor Prall and a leader of the English youth movement. In every way the meeting was a welcome contrast to the peace strikes sponsored in previous years by advocates of the olive branch at Harvard. It was orderly, calm, and drenched in the peaceful atmosphere most conducive to a protest for peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference...
Everyone who sympathizes with the efforts of the Student Union to marshal peace sentiment will receive with joy the announcement of a national, dignified peace strike...
...conjunction with the nation-wide peace strike, a sub-committee of the Peace Committee of the Student Union has started work to obtain speakers for the meeting to be held here on April 22. According to the last fortnightly bulletin of the Union, the work is "with the blessing of Dean Hanford...