Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweltering noonday heat, 62,000 United Automobile Workers streamed out of the gates of the Ford Motor Co.'s sprawling River Rouge and Lincoln plants and onto the picket lines. C.I.O. loudspeaker trucks rolled into place. Square white placards carried the message: FORD IS ON STRIKE. It was the first mass walkout at Ford since 1941, when a bitter, ten-day strike forced stubborn old Henry Ford to recognize the union. This time U.A.W. had been painfully rallied by an old, three-alarm cry: "Speed...
...Reuther's heart was clearly not in his work. With new contract negotiations coming up within a week, he would have preferred to save the strike weapon to push through the union's 1949 demands for wage increases, pensions, and a health program. His hand had been forced by the tough, Communist-led faction in U.A.W.'s huge, 59,000-member Rouge Local 600, which had snowballed the speed-up into a major issue of union politics...
...recent election, Local 600's President Tommy Thompson, lukewarm friend of Reuther, had been forced to ride the issue even harder. When Local 600 voted 30,000 to 4,000 to call the strike, Reuther's international board at first stalled on authorizing the strike...
Fortnight ago he formally notified Queen Juliana that he would go on a hunger strike against the government's "wavering, incompetent and characterless" policy of appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
...author of many books and magazine articles, Powell also served as special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States in 1936 and served on the President's Emergency Board on the National Railway Strike...