Word: strikebound
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...Mayor Roger Dearborn Lapham. Some San Franciscans wanted to oust him because his administration had put through a 3? fare rise on the city's rattletrap trolley lines. To add to the doctors' confusion, when they first hit town the trolleys were not even running. They were strikebound...
...month the vital arteries of Great Lakes shipping had been blocked by the strike of the Canadian Seamen's Union. The embolism, choking off coal shipments from the U.S. to Canada, now threatened to cripple Canadian industry. Last week the Canadian Government announced seizure of the strikebound shipping companies. It was the second seizure since war's end, one of the few in Canadian history...
Scabs & Stalemate. Wherever possible, owners sailed their ships with non-union crews, claimed that only a score or so were strikebound. In anti-union Montreal, some 200 non-union men, mostly veterans and husky high-school graduates, were recruited to sail the ships...
...over the nation, just as quietly as they had climbed down, men in faded blue overalls now mounted their cabs again. Trainmen went back to work. The gloom in roundhouses was brightened by the sudden yellow glare from fire doors. By midnight, on almost all the 337 strikebound roads, locomotives drummed through the darkness with throttles back and Johnson bars in the corner. More slowly, freight trains took up their grinding journeys. In railroad stations lines reformed at ticket windows. Baggage appeared; redcaps toiled. The Government turned the roads back to their owners...
...before Surits walked down his Rio gangplank, three Brazilian destroyers had steamed 200 miles southward to strikebound, Communist-controlled Santos, the world's largest coffee port, and landed 227 marines. Abashed by armed force and the jailing of their Communist leaders, the striking bagrinhos (dockwork-ers-literally, "shadfish") promised not to do it again. Minister of Labor Octacilio Negrão de Lima rushed into town, reiterated the Government's conveniently forgotten pledge to replace airless, lightless dockside tenements with modern housing. The workers accepted his offer of a 54% pay hike...