Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...going to disobey the strike order?" correspondents questioned...
...down aboard ship at Montevideo, Uruguay. Fourteen were subsequently charged with mutiny, convicted in Baltimore, given 30 to 35 days in jail. The Government accepted the lesser pleas last week, said Assistant U. S. Attorney Vincent Quinn, because "the principle . . . that seamen cannot conduct a sit-down strike on an American vessel was fully established at Baltimore." C. I. O. Attorney William Standard denied that any such principle had been laid down. On the contrary, said he, the best established U. S. court precedent is that a strike aboard a ship in safe harbor is not mutiny...
...City Hall, nine truckloads of troops surrounded the Chamber of Deputies building. Other patrols stacked arms on important street corners and public squares. The authority of the Premier of France to govern by decree power granted him by Parliament was about to be disputed in a 24-hour general strike called by the French Confederation of Labor. The Republic's troops were posted to see that the Premier's authority was upheld...
Premier Edouard Daladier denounced the strike as "political," a test not only of his administration but of the French democracy's ability to withstand minority pressure in a crisis. He believed he could beat the strike and maintain his Government's prestige if he could maintain the public services, so he invoked a statute on the books since July and militarized all transport, communications, war industries and the Government service. He also served notice that workers who obeyed Leon Jouhaux's orders to report for work in military plants and then "fold arms" would be jailed...
...Paris the strike fell flat. Trains, trams, busses, trucks moved. The Government offices operated without a hitch. The factories opened and the workers, except in a very few instances, went to work. For example, of the nearly 20,000 Paris subway workers, only 200 failed to report for duty. At 8 a.m. the powerful Subway Workers Union revoked its strike order and by noon Paris was doing business as usual...