Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them women, each year manufacture $634,000,000 worth. In midwinter dressmakers are busiest, preparing for the Easter trade. This year they are especially busy because of major style changes in women's wear. Last week, at the busiest time, 35,000 New York dressmakers went on strike...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...
...wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
Last week the first duty of Prime Minister Berenguer was to settle the "strike" of Madrid University students. They were romping about the city, half clowning, half in earnest, shouting, "Down with the King! Death to policemen...
Easiest way to pacify the students, popularize the Cabinet, seemed to be to appoint the champagne-cocktail Duke as Minister of Education. To oblige his pal and King, blithe Alba took the stodgy post, settled the students' strike in a day, helped immeasurably with his national popularity and prestige to bolster the otherwise undistinguished new Cabinet...