Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picket line, despite the rain. According to him dishwashers had been getting $9 a week for up to 12 hours daily work. The Union wants an eight hour day and "as much pay as we can get." Moore laughingly denied that there would be a sympathy strike of Harvard cooks and dishwashers, and appeared optimistic of victory, citing the past success of the Union...
...Harvard Athletic Committee. His interest in community affairs, and his willingness to lead and take action in such matters which are often hampered by mass inertia, was outstanding. Although past 70 at the time, he was the first man to volunteer as a policeman in the Boston Police Strike. He played an instrumental part in the organization of the Cambridge municipal golf club. If all Harvard entertained such a sympathetic attitude toward the outside world, there would be no town-gown problem...
...last known really big outpouring of "Moscow gold" in the English-speaking world was when $2,000,000 was openly transmitted from the Industrial Bank of the U. S. S. R. via Lloyds' and other British banks to leaders of the British General Strike-most of whom were not even Communists, an excruciating pain to the devoted. They watched beefy British Labor leaders who took the money, who were interviewed by London papers as exclaiming "Thank God for Moscow!", and who then gave up the General Strike with about as much mealy-mouthed reluctance as served Britain to give...
...hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
...week's end no one in authority would predict what might happen next. It seemed unlikely management would still insist on the December 1 cut; but if it should, labor would undoubtedly go on the nation-wide strike already voted. By putting it squarely up to the Government to do something for the staggering roads, the Fact-Finders gave impetus to Franklin Roosevelt's request that the two opposing groups get together on a sweeping legislative program...