Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime trader nowadays is bull-necked John Llewellyn Lewis of United Mine Workers. With United Mine Workers' contracts about to expire simultaneously with the late NRA on June 16, Miner Lewis has been brewing a big bituminous strike to keep wages up (TIME, June 10). In wholehearted sympathy with him are most of the Northern bituminous mine operators, who will continue to pay high wages if the Government will continue to help hold coal prices up. Miner Lewis, abetted by the owners, has been working a trade with the Administration whereby he would call off his coal strike...
...printer-publishers were onetime typesetters on the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, Union (morning & evening) and Daily News, on strike since last month (TIME, May 27). When the strike occurred, hard-boiled Sherman Hoar Bowles, owner of all four Springfield newspapers, published them in typewritten form until he could get strikebreakers on the job. After four weeks on the picket line, the strikers scraped together enough money to launch the Journal, a 16-page, 2? tabloid full of local news. Two unemployed newshawks helped them. Local merchants, theatres, lunchrooms, liquor stores bought liberal advertising space. Press run: 20,000. All proceeds went...
From the Journal readers could learn about the "Girl Killed by Automobile," the "Injured Man Left in Street," the " 'Queer' Money Being Spread in This City" and the Treasury's daily balance. Strike propaganda was mostly confined to the editorial page, which appealed to "the good will of a citizenry which loves fair play...
...Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...
...whose existence they did not dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike; that the era of carpetbag rule in the South, far from being a period of political scandal and corruption, was ''the finest effort to achieve democracy for the working millions which this world had ever seen...