Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them for black lung, an irreversible condition that results from inhaling coal dust. Led by three coal-country physicians and joined by Congressman Ken Hechler and omni-purpose crusader Ralph Nader, most of the state's 43,000 miners walked off their jobs in a three-week wildcat strike and marched on the state capitol bearing a coffin...
...Smith as a character is most extraordinary for his recognizable human qualities and frailties. Behind Horn Smith's power and hatred there is a person who desperately needs the recognition and sympathy even of a self-consciously inadequate white priest. Yet the fact that Pratt and Smith somehow strike up something that can be construed as friendship is remarkable. The unusual results of their mutual "needs" raise the novel above the level of an otherwise purely allegorical tale of ghetto politics...
...view of our support of the teaching fellow demands, we firmly believe that the students have no other way, at this time, to insure implementation of them than by the present strike. We, therefore, support that strike...
...Divinity School Direct Action Committee decided last night to recommend that the University-wide strike continue. It will present the proposal to a meeting of all the striking members of the Divinity School in a meeting at 10 a.m. today...
...mass meeting we will suggest continuing the strike whether or not the other strikers endorse it," said Samuel M. Johnson, a committee member. "It's just a question of whether the committee or the whole group makes the proposal...