Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reputation in many fields. Much sought after for college dances throughout New England, this hand has provided the entertainment for several important summer cruises. This aggregation of talented players achieved the national prominence it now holds four years age when it was selected to play on the Lucky Strike program over a coast-to-coast N. B. C. network. Of late this Dartmouth institution has been recording for a leading phonograph company...
With its price reduced from five cents to three, the second edition of the Student Herald appeared on news stands yesterday. A special to the Student Herald is a featured, heralding a nation wide peace strike, called for Friday, November...
...Peace. With that idea which dreamy Socialists hoped would prevent the bloodshed of 1914-18, the same delegates last week proposed "in any imperialist war we call upon President Green to immediately call a general strike of all workers affiliated with the A. F. of L." But all they got out of William Green was a pious phrase: "Under no circumstances whatever must we be drawn into this European...
...Tvvo and a half months after the Terre Haute strike was "settled," the town was still under martial law last week. Nevertheless a metal plant was bombed. Elsewhere in the U. S. Labor showed its teeth. Following the assassination of a Kansas City truckmen's organizer, all Kansas City building trades unionists called a one-day demonstration strike. More important, 9,000 Gulf Coast stevedores walked out in an effort to force union recognition at New Orleans and raise the general wage scale...
...jobless citizens actually put to work by last week, a discouraging number were growling about their low pay, threatening to strike. Last week President Roosevelt tossed them another bone by changing the basis of local wage rates from county population to population of the largest municipality within the county...