Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...YORK--The New York Times and the New York Daily News have reportedly agreed in principle with their pressmen's union on the way to settle the union's 65-day-old strike...
...pressmen went on strike after publishers of the three dailies posted new work rules which would have eliminated the jobs of nearly half of the 1550 pressmen at the three papers. The publishers insisted they needed relief from restrictive work rules and expensive manning requirements in order to meet competition from aggressive suburban papers...
...strike, do everything I could to keep it (the strike) going. People just don't recognize the insidious effects of television...People don't read anymore, they just turn on the tube...They get so used to things being made obvious and explicit, getting hit over the head...I don't know how to combat...
...police released 21 members of the group shortly after their arrest on $100 bail. The rest of the demonstrators remained in jail to call a hunger strike and demand release on personal recognizance...
...Hungary and East Germany are severly restricted by the regime: for although these countries may be Communist also, their nationalist affinity with their Transylvanian kin is too close and potentially separatist for comfort. It is highly significant that the most serious recent opposition to Ceaucescu was the Transylvanian miners' strike, where most of the leaders arrested were Hungarian speaking...