Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mining town, write a book about it. The result of her adventures is an absorbingly interesting record, written with such artful candor that it reads like a first-rate novel. I Went to Pit College will be an eye opener to anyone who supposes that a serious book about striking miners must be either a dreary factual study or hysterical propaganda. With no statistical tables. no sociological jargon, not even a photograph (except on the jacket), I Went to Pit College paints an authentic, unforgettable picture. To have taken a postgraduate course at "Pit College" is no mean feat...
...epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline of a novel he was going to write. He had taken a correspondence course in finger printing, but had changed his mind about being a detective. Johnny paid her a heartfelt compliment, called her "a thorn rose...
Karpovich declared that the war would have no international significance. "It will be a purely local affair. The only other country that might be interested would be China, who might strike Japan if the Russians were winning. United States recognition of Russia will have no influence on the war, although some people say that the United States recognized Russia in order to keep an eye on Japan...
...President's latest decree on the National Labor Board may, without any occult insight into the backstage life of the N. R. A., be safely termed a victory for the shrewdly-hitting Secretary of Labor over her burly opponent, Hugh Johnson. In the struggle over the remodelling of the strike mediation, Miss Perkins, despite her hat, seems to have gained the ear of the Executive very effectively, and has brought it about that the N. L. B. no longer is compelled to hand over its decisions to the so-called compliance division for final review, but will be able...
Washington, March 2--A warning today came from Hays Jones, representing the Marine Worker's Industrial Union, New York, that its 15,000 members will be called out on strike if the shipping code is adopted in its present form...