Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intermittently since then the old Jamaica story of low pay and virtual serfdom, has cropped up. Early last month sugar plantation workers rioted, caused several days' disturbances. Last week economic discontent reached the general-strike and general-riot stage in the island's capital, Kingston...
...rushed to the scene from Bermuda. On Britain's Empire Day-May 24-police and mobs clashed. Three Negroes were killed, 30 persons went to the hospital, 70 labor leaders, including forceful chief Labor Leader Alexander Bustamante, were jailed. At week's end the dock workers' strike had been settled...
...Minister of Education, to whip up the "spiritual mobilization" of the country, Premier Konoye appointed egg-bald, creamy-voiced General Baron Sadao Araki, fiery War Minister during the Manchurian campaign. At the extremity of the "extremists," General Araki is an open advocate of a campaign to strike at Russia while she is internally weak and ram her out of Vladivostok. Appointed as Finance Minister was white-haired, white-mustached, Harvard-educated Seihin Ikeda, former managing director of the vast Mitsui industrial empire...
...publishers to resume publication failed. Finally last week, with the aid of police tear gas and night sticks, printers and other nonstriking employes were able to scurry past 300 pickets. Once inside, they immediately started getting out the papers. Two days later, an agreement was reached, the strike called...
Fortnight ago, labor-loving readers of the Citizen-News were shocked when labor-loving Publisher Palmer's entire editorial staff went on strike. With a Guild contract about to be signed, Publisher Palmer had decided to retrench by firing three active Guild members: Political Editor Roger Johnson, a past president of the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild, Drama Critic Elizabeth Yeaman and Editorial Writer Mel. G. Scott Jr. To the Guild, this was discriminatory discharge in violation of the Labor Act and cause for a strike. Sorrowfully, Publisher Palmer hired a staff of scabs, insisting that, as a liberal...