Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three groups, one in each room. We expect the cops to come any moment. After an hour's discussion my room votes 29-16 to refuse to leave, to make the cops carry us out. The losing alternative is to escape through the windows and then go organize a strike. The feeling is that if we get busted, then there will be something to organize a strike about. The man chairing the discussion is standing on a small wooden table and I am very concerned lest he break it. We collect water in wastebaskets in case of tear gas. Some...
...university-wide employees' strike caused the trouble--the fairways and greens had been unwatered and unclipped for weeks. Patches of dirt showed through the light-green crewcut putting surface. For Harvard golfers, unaccustomed to this mess, putting was torture...
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Members of Ethos, a black student group, threatened a hunger strike if the demands contained in an open letter sent at 9 a.m. yesterday to Miss Ruth Adams, president of the college, were not met "unequivocally" within twentyfour hours...
...demands followed an academic strike by 200 students on April 26. The strike, sponsored by Ethos and Wellesley Against Racism (WAR), called for almost identical reforms. Miss Kristine Olson, a junior and coordinator of WAR, said the administration evaded the demands at that time, offering moral support but stating that the requests would be too difficult to implement...