Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will skilled union workers starve to protect the wage scales which Labor has struggled 50 years to build? That question was put to a test in New York City last week when some 2,000 union bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers, lathers on Federal relief jobs walked out on strike against WPA's "security wages...
Cheer on cheer greeted the U. S. Communist Party's apostles of direct action, Party Secretary Earl Browder and the No. 2 U. S. Red, Sam Darcy, who raised the Red flag last year in San Francisco's general strike...
...first day of the conference 46 Japanese and 76 U. S. and Canadian students met in the Reed College chapel, squirmed in the pews while the speakers talked of nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U. S.-Japanese war inevitable." Glad when the assembly was over, the Japanese delegates wanted first to see the unemployed. Back on the campus they settled down to talk of foreign trade, Manchuria, Communism, dictatorship, missionaries...
Caught flatfooted at the end of June by threat of a soft coal strike on July i, the President did not allow himself to be surprised a second time. Six days before the postponed strike was due again, he wrote to miners and operators asking them to postpone the strike a fourth time to Sept. 16. Graciously miners and operators accepted his "command," hoping for passage in the meantime of the Guffey Coal bill...
Forty-eight hours after 48 unions had called it early last week, a general strike in Terre Haute was ended by the American Federation of Labor. As a show of Labor strength it had been a spectacular success-vastly inconveniencing the 66,000 residents of that Indiana manufacturing & mining centre by cutting off food supplies, stopping streetcars, taxis and trucks, closing stores and filling stations, bringing the city under martial law and causing a few brushes between guardsmen and strikers. But as an effective effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general...