Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the straphangers guessed they would lose, whatever happened. If the company kept its offer low the strike would go on; if the union won a big raise the public would have to pay for it in increased fares...
...Shall Strike the Shepherd." Bluntly, he called Cardinal Mindszenty's arrest and sentence "a most serious outrage which inflicts a deep wound not only on your distinguished College and on the Church, but also every upholder of the dignity and liberty of man . . . The principal object of the trial was to disrupt the Catholic Church in Hungary and precisely for the purpose set forth in Sacred Scripture: 'I shall strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed' ... Now that things have come to such a pass that this most worthy prelate has been...
...course of events, Northern Ireland would not have had a general election until next year. By rushing the election through on the issue of partition, Northern Ireland's position as a part of the United Kingdom would be affirmed, and the Tories would be made secure, in one strike...
Special Treatment. They called a "progressive" strike (an hour's work stoppage the first night, 1½ hours the second, etc.). Eva Perón's Democracia got special treatment: a stoppage plus a slowdown. For strikebreakers, Eva called in convicts from Buenos Aires' federal penitentiary. The convicts refused to work. Democracia was among the first papers to suspend publication...
...rules, the strike of Buenos Aires' newspaper typographers should have been a cinch to settle. Their demand-a 25% wage boost to meet the soaring cost of living-seemed mild enough by recent Argentine standards. But before the week was out, the printers had defied both their officers and the government, and shut down all newspapers in Buenos Aires. In the weird half-light of the resulting news blackout, Argentines watched as shadowy figures pulled & hauled, and Juan Perón's government teetered...