Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abiding Norway mob resistance to policemen is all but unknown. Suddenly last week 1000 water front workers, on strike at Porsgrund, grew ugly, resisted 120 policemen, drove them back and back until they took refuge in a factory...
This is not quite a half-truth. According to the story of Porter Smith whose testimony seems quite regular and reasonable, he did not strike a single passenger, but defended himself against passengers who sought to strike him. It is also important to note that, according to Smith, the emergency axe was only secured by him after the emergency box was broken open by some one of the passengers or the train crew, who took out the emergency sledge hammer, the same having been seen in the possession of one of the passengers...
...Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard, who expects to be on the Graf Zeppelin's proposed flight this summer, last week thought he knew. Bergs drift south from the Arctic toward Labrador and Newfoundland. Normally an "ice fence" exists along those coasts, against which the bergs strike. The soft collision sends the bergs caroming eastward into the shipping lanes. This year, he believes and hopes to find, the "ice fence" has failed to form. Consequently the southing bergs must have piled up on the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts, as though Jack Frost and King Neptune, bored with...
...having difficulty facing Depression, Pickands, Mather & Co. of Cleveland bought the holdings of William H. Davey, estimated at 14%. In March Empire planned a reorganization, but shareholders did not show any willingness to invest in additional securities. Last month it ordered wages cut 15%, was blocked by a strike. Thus twice frustrated, last week it went into receivership. President Carl H. Henkel was appointed receiver, hopes to keep the plants running. Empire's receivership (involving $20,000,000 in assets) was the first notable one in the steel industry for some time, made steelmen hark back to the similar fate...
...Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. reported it was on a five-day basis, employing as many workers as possible. C. H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (automobiles) closed for two weeks. C. A strike of 2,700 members of International Pocketbook Workers' Union resulted when employers tried to cut wages...