Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, with Bridges taking orders from Sam Darcy, California Communist boss at the time...
...Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen for the job of general secretary of the congress...
...C.G.I.L., Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than the walkout staged by Communists in France last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 5). The Italian strike stopped the steel and auto factories of the north; it was partly effective in the ports, and in urban transport systems. Nevertheless, millions of workers ignored the strike order. Instead of being paralyzed, Italy felt only...
...index of Red defeat was the fact that even the staffs of the Communist Unita and the left-wing Socialist Avanti went to work to put out their papers, after it became apparent that other papers in Italy would publish on schedule. The Reds had boasted that during the strike no papers at all would hit the streets...
...Pittsburgh last week, Newscaster Paul Long, speaking casually on NBC's network show News of the World, announced: "John L. Lewis just shot Santa Claus. That's what one miner told me today in commenting on the coming coal strike...