Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between "small groups" of representatives of large bodies of labor and management to agree on "a specific trial period of industrial peace." What form this trial would take remained to be seen, though Madam Secretary Perkins later announced that Labor would not be asked to surrender its right to strike...
With the general strike of workers spreading rapidly through Spain's industrial centers, and the provinces seething in rebellion, further complications came after midnight, when strikers practically paralyzed every communication and transportation artery in the nation...
...Rumors of an impending upheaval in Spain gained partial confirmation late tonight when it was reported by authoritative sources that a general strike would be called throughout the republic at midnight...
Decision to call the strike came shortly after Alejandro Leroux, leader of Spain's radical party, had formed a new cabinet and presented the list to President Niceto Alcala Zamora...
...success in reconciling capital and labor was that he offered the latter a constructive program: the Corporative State Whether or no this State is but another form of capitalistic domination, it has succeeded to a remarkable extent in putting an end to such forms of economic waste as the strike, the lookout, sabotage etc. Prior to Mussolini's accession, Italy was so torn with violent industrial disturbances that communism was believed by many to be inevitable. But in his particular mode of Fascism, Mussolini prevented the inevitable. The voice of American labor seems, for the moment at least...