Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five-gallon Stetson hat. made a loud, fiery speech to 10,000 farmers in behalf of a producers' strike. In cowbarn language he proposed a Farmers Holiday Association to execute the strike. He would organize and head it-at $5 per day, to be paid by a 50? levy on all members. A radical exhibitionist who claims to be "as poor as the rest of you farmers," Mr. Reno began passing...
...problems is not to be found in haphazard experimentation.* ... It does not follow . . . that we must turn to a State controlled or State-directed system to cure our troubles. That is not liberalism; that is tyranny. . . . Ofttimes the tendency of democracy in the presence of national danger is to strike blindly, to listen to demagogs and to slogans. . . . We have refused to be stampeded into such courses. . . . Relief Record. "We prevented the wholesale failure of banks, insurance companies, building & loan associations, railroads. This was not done to save a few stockholders (Artificial applause) but to save 25 millions of American...
...again last week was China's anti-Japanese boycott, cause of the much deplored Japanese invasion of Shanghai. On pain of a general strike, the Chinese Seamen & Pilots' Association ordered Chinese shipowners to refuse to refuel with Japanese coal. In Shanghai two new boycott clubs were formed, known respectively as The Purified Heart & Hot Blood Corps for the Extermination of Traitors, and The Blood & Soul Society...
...arrival, he persuaded both sides to appoint three members to an arbitration board which he headed with the right to vote. Each faction agreed to abide by the board's findings. The board retired to the Hotel Sheraton. Four hours later it emerged with its decision?$2.10. The strike was over...
...closer together." exclaimed Governor Gardner as he was being photographed with the erstwhile strike leaders...