Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress did he veto. Proudest signing of the week was that of the Guffey Coal Bill attended by a host of Congressional godfathers, watched over by John L. Lewis and other officers of the United Mine Workers and followed at once by 1) steps to call off the coal strike scheduled for Sept. 24 and 2) a suit filed by Carter Coal Co. of Washington, D. C. challenging the constitutionality...
...ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State Department held that the President should be allowed to decide when and against whom he would lay an arms embargo. Only by holding that threat in reserve, it was argued, could the U. S. cooperate with other nations in exerting...
...expected to live on home relief. But in Washington, WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins surprised them by promising that whatever home relief they got would be from states or cities because the Federal Government would not contribute a cent to their support. Snapped he: "There is no such thing as a strike on a relief...
...Venizelos political stronghold of Crete a so-called "general revolutionary strike" promptly broke out last week and Acting Premier Field Marshal George Kondylis asked Premier Tsaldaris what to do in an urgent long-distance call. "Do!" the Premier sputtered at the Marshal. "Why, raise the strikers' pay!" After 4,000 general revolutionary strikers had had their pay upped 15%, Crete subsided in the news, leaving seven dead, 50 wounded, censorship tight...
Sailors of the French Line were meanwhile staging the strike they patriotically abandoned to permit the Normandie to sail on her record-breaking maiden voyage (TIME, June 10). They walked off the Champlain at Havre last week and for two days most of her 670 passengers were fed and bedded in Havre hotels at French Line expense. Meanwhile the men's leaders wrangled in Paris with Minister of Merchant Marine William Bertrand, saddest man on the Normandie's maiden voyage.* Since employees of the French Line are paid largely by State subsidy, M. Bertrand insisted last week that...