Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main reason for Miss Berkman's arrest was her energetic activity as a strike-leader whom the Lawrence mill-owners wished to get out of the way as soon as possible. Her affiliation with a left-wing union was the excuse, and the U. S. Department of Labor was the means...
Besides Mrs. Cisar, some 300,000 Chicago property owners went on a tax strike because of the high rates assessed for 1928 and 1929. Organizing them for mass action, their leaders argued that only $500,000,000 of Cook County's 16 billions in personal property was being taxed by the authorities and that until real estate was relieved of its excessive tax burden, its owners would pay little or nothing to the support of local government. Mrs. Cisar's case forged to the front for a court test. Last December a Cook County judge sustained her refusal...
...decision in the Cisar case and reinstating the 1928-29 assessments. Mrs. Cisar would have to pay her $544 in back taxes. So would all other delinquents who owed the county and city a total of $71,257,098, not counting $10,505,649 in penalties. The strike leaders talked of taking their fight to the U. S. Supreme Court. But if they did and lost, they would be penalized 1% per month for their delinquencies...
...Riga, son of a civil engineer, in 1898. When the Revolution started, he was 19. He enlisted in the engineering corps. After the War, he joined the Protecult, first Russian workers' theatre. His first assignment was Jack London's Mexicalia. In 1924 he completed his first cinema. Strike. Later, his pictures The Armored Cruiser Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World, photographically the most brilliant cinemas ever made, attracted the attention of Producer Jesse Lasky who gave fuzzy-haired, garrulous Director Eisenstein his Paramount contract, the world nothing...
...Most of them were lame, a few suffered from partial paralysis, several had been severely kicked and bitten, and two were little more than skeletons. Some of the horses were badly injured while being swung ashore, but they were beaten and prodded violently with sticks. We watched one man strike a horse 35 times. ... At Vaugirard they arrived exhausted and in a deplorable condition. They had had no food or water for 50 hours. The Frenchmen said they must not have food or water for fear they got the gripes. All were lame when they reached the stables. These horses...