Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important page one news as the neighborhood's bloody coal strike (see p. 14) last week was the indictment of Pittsburgh's Mayor Charles H. Kline for malfeasance in office. Also indicted was Bertram L. Succop, onetime director of the city's Department of Supplies, whom Mayor Kline dismissed as soon as the present investigation into municipal food- buying loomed. A grand jury found that food contracts had not been let to the lowest responsible bidder, that contracts had been given to firms under fictitious names, that contemplated purchases of over $500 had not been advertised...
...unions-the old United Mine Workers of America (affiliated with the American Federation of Labor) and the New National Miners Union of Communist com- plexion, formed in 1928. Each disavowed the other. The National said the United had betrayed the miners when it was bested in the 1927 strike. The United said the National was an organization of irre- sponsible radicals. Picketing of mines and demonstrations against workers who would not walk out followed, attended by violence and mobbery. Results for June were as follows...
...much to drive from the land its unwelcome brother. Depression has brought advertising its problems, as it has to every other industry. Clients, frantically endeavoring to save money, are very apt to curtail advertising expenditures. Smart campaigns which in normal times would bring in great results may strike against locked purses and collapse. So an unusual gravity pervaded the convention in Manhattan last week of the Federation of America. But, after heeding the many speeches, most of the ventioners went home more cheerful they came...
...announced resolve to banish Brother Svetozar Pribichevich for a second time to the tiny Serbian village of Brus, 20 miles from the nearest railway. When told last week that he would be sent back to Brus, Svetozar Pribichevich, a small, lean man, dramatically went on a hunger strike. Wailed Mme Bosilka Pribichevich: "My Svetozar will die! He will die!" "Svetozar," cried Col. Milan Pribichevich, "will die rather than yield!" "Svetozar will never yield to the Dictatorship!" cried Adam Pribichevich...
...King Alexander that it simply would not do to keep Svetozar Pribichevich at Brus Result: he was transferred to the Belgrade Hospital, one of the cleanest and most pleasant places in Belgrade. To help her husband get out Mme Bosilka Pribichevich presently announced: "I have gone on a hunger strike...