Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmers were not wholly satisfied with the progress of Roosevelt relief to date. Their spokesmen said they had been led to expect much more from the Administration. Milo Reno was again threatening a farm strike. Even Secretary Wallace admitted that, with NRA raising farm costs faster than A. A. A. could raise farm income, they were "on the spot unless they got higher prices." Crop subsidies had not worked; currency inflation must therefore come next, and soon...
...produce clashes which overshadowed most other NRA doings. So sure did William Green, A. F. of L. president, feel of his grip on NRA that last week he boldly demanded that his organization be made an official co-administrator of all codes. NRA was almost as busy settling strikes and getting union men back to work as it was in creating new jobs for the unemployed. The coal strike hinged directly on the coal code which required the President's direct intervention (see p. 11). In the East 50,000 silk workers went on strike in protest against lumping...
...things: 1) the substitution of non-sectarian schools for the Catholic Church schools that have taught Spaniards all they know for half a millennium; 2) the dispossession of the great grandee landowners. His great weapon is the Socialist labor unions of 1,000,000 well-organized men, ready to strike at the drop of Premier Azana's floppy black...
...Four thousand youngsters in Old Forge, Pa. shuffled into their schools one morning last week, romped out five minutes later. Unpaid for six months, their teachers were on strike...
...Germany. In June 1914 he sought desperately to avert the World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that his hesitation encouraged Germany to strike first, by Germans who retorted that his policy of friendship emboldened France. Appointed temporary Ambassador to the U. S. in 1919. he spent four months in Washington without presenting his credentials to President Wilson, who was too ill to receive him. After England's general strike of 1926 Viscount Grey...