Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago, before the German and British crises, Pierre Laval, Senator and Mayor of the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers, was as little known as Calvin Coolidge before the Boston police strike. Foreign correspondents called him ''the man with the white necktie" for, following the international tradition that politicians must have some idiosyncrasy of dress, he always wears a washable white cravat...
...strike that has been declared by the carpenters and the concrete workers who have been erecting the new War Memorial Chapel has not been settled as yet, according to University authorities. The two factions of workers are still at odds over the laying of a floor which entails the work of both the workers. The strike was begun two days ago and there is no prospect of it being settled any too soon...
...same type of floor which has caused the altercation now was laid in Eliot House last Spring without any quibble by the cement workers who quietly went about their work without the carpenters noticing it. Until the strike is ended work on the new chapel can not proceed...
...supporters followed to the courthouse. There they began singing hymns. Mayor Herbert J. Bosler ordered them to stop. ''Then let us pray for a minute!" cried Evangelist Jeffers. He knelt on the courthouse steps, prayed for four minutes. Time was up, said the Mayor. "May God strike the Mayor dead!" shouted the Evangelist, as his followers rained blows on Mayor Bosler and Chief of Police W. C. Craig. Deputies broke up the meeting...
...days at least 20 people were shot dead, 40 wounded. Borrowing an idea from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, hundreds of frightened strikers' wives paraded through the streets behind a banner "Children Before Politics" and declared a wives' strike of their own, swearing that their husbands should have neither food nor affection until they went back to work...