Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is not a strike." cautioned anxious Secretary of Labor Perkins. "The Iron & Steel Institute seems to be several steps ahead of the program. I hope they will not do anything foolish and against the public interest themselves. I hope they do not get nervous and panicky...
...only question is what size that deficit will be." Earlier in the week rumors that British civil servants were planning to go on a stayin strike for more pay similar to those in France caused Chancellor Chamberlain to tell the House: "Civil servants who seek to indulge in such strike tactics render themselves liable to instant dismissal...
...jailbird in drab prison garb only five months ago was Spanish Minister of Labor Juan Lluhi (pronounced Zhoo-i). By last week Madrid elevators had not run for two months and stair-climbers were getting ugly. Abruptly Señor Lluhi settled the elevator operators' strike, by having the elevator owners seized and jailed until they yielded to the operators' demands for higher...
With elevators running again Madrid felt better, though in that capital alone 100,000 workers of various sorts were striking. The railways were threatened with a strike likely to tie up all Spain. In a now typical instance of Madrid political carnage last week, three Fascists were mowed down by a machine-gun spitting from a presumptively Socialist...
...revolt, must either give up his Arab following or lose the high office he holds with British support. Last week this Nashashibi strategy seemed to be working to perfection. The Grand Mufti had been obliged to promise the British that the Moslem Supreme Council would support no violence or strike. Protested the inspired young Arabs of Nablus: "Your religious position requires you to march at the head of the people, never at the rear...