Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From him Josephine Roche inherited a large but by no means controlling block of stock in Rocky Mountain Fuel Co., third biggest coal mining company in Colorado. Crushed and disorganized by long and bloody industrial warfare, Colorado miners were then brooding another strike. The strike broke. Six workers were killed, 35 injured at the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co.'s Columbine mine. Instead of scuttling back to the peaceful East, Josephine Roche bought control of the company, set out to create "a new era in the industrial relations of Colorado." She invited the dreaded United Mine Workers of America...
Last week the Guild tried to negotiate with Publisher Russell for reinstatement of the eight, a promise of no further dismissals "without cause" for the present, no hiring of new newsmen for 30 days. He refused. Egged on by President Broun, the Newark Guild called a strike on the Ledger, the first movement of its kind by the Guild against any large metropolitan newspaper. Of 52 staffmen (exclusive of the managing editor and his assistant) 46 walked out, according to the Guild. The local newsdealers' association helped with pamphlets flaying Publisher Russell. Then the publisher offered to arbitrate...
...that the Administration at last desires the "cooperation of business and will in turn cooperate with business to revive trade and industry." But this policy is doomed to failure while labor assumes such an antagonistic attitude towards corporate industry, and while the textile workers threaten to inaugurate another paralyzing strike...
...qualify for the Nobel prize a writer needs an international reputation, a large body of work and a grey frost of years. It also helps if his country has not received an award for some time, because the Academicians at Stockholm like to strike a delicate balance between diplomacy and recognition of literary merit. Once it decided that Italy was due for an award, the Nobel Prize Committee was of necessity limited in its choice to four men: Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, Estheticist Benedetto Croce, Historian Guglielmo Ferrero, Playwright Pirandello. Drama lovers the world over were highly pleased...
...University of California's main campus at Berkeley, across the bay from San Francisco, four student strike-leaders were pelted with eggs, tomatoes. The chairman of the County's Joint Americanism Committee revealed that for two months 22 student spies had been blacklisting student and faculty radicals at Berkeley. At nearby San Mateo Junior College four liberal student speakers from Berkeley were pummeled, jailed, sent home with orders to stay there. In neighboring Santa Clara County, officials of San Jose Junior College issued a call for student vigilantes. Santa Clara University expelled the editor of its student newspaper...