Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in the harbor a few ships got away, many others remained strike-bound as the two seamen's factions battled for control. Most spectacular victory for Curran was delaying for eight hours the ship carrying Secretary of State Cordell Hull to Buenos Aires for the Pan- American Peace Conference. Most significant development was the shift of Eastern strikers from mere sympathy with Western strikers to identical active demands for themselves...
...Washington, President Roosevelt conferred with his Cabinet, then declined to intervene. Secretary Perkins declared that Mediator McGrady would yet solve the "regular" West Coast strike, dismissed the Eastern strike as that of a "rump organization." Other highlights...
...Federal shipping experts in Washington estimated that the strike was causing a daily loss...
...King Edward VIII and his advisers not decided to send an overwhelming expeditionary force to Palestine and bestowed the most extraordinary dictatorial powers of life & death upon Lieut. General John Greer Dill, when they ordered him to put an end to the Arab general strike (TIME, Oct. 5), the Arabs by now would quite possibly have slit most of the Jewish throats in that country...
Declared the New Zionists: "The fact that 80 Jews were murdered and hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Jewish property destroyed under a British Administration should not be allowed to pass quietly. . . . British quarters have announced the stoppage of the strike through the medium of a declaration by General Dill in command of the troops in Palestine. The terms of this declaration are probably without precedent in British history. In fact they concede to the Arabs belligerent rights accorded to each other only by sovereign states at war with each other. General Dill has actually conceded to the Arabs...