Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Gompers said that labor unions do not desire to establish a uniform wage, but merely a minimum wage. No effort is made to limit production. The chief aim is to promote industrial peace and steadily improve the condition of working people. Unions seek to avoid strikes when possible; but it has been found that the unions best prepared to strike are those which have struck least...
Rule VI. The games shall be played under the American League rules of this year, and the foul strike rule will be enforced...
...year instead of next year as was originally announced. The sum of $100 and a specially designed medal will be given to the author of the best original English poem of 40 to 60 lines, written on one of the following topics: The Balkans, The Immigrant, Harvard College, The Strike-breaker, The New Japan, Charles Russell Lowell. Competitors are entirely free in their choice of form and in treatment of the subjects. The competition is open only to members of Harvard College, not to members of the Graduate Schools. Competing poems should be written on one side of the paper...
...stepping out from behind the batter on a throw to bases. A number of the pitchers have developed excellent speed but have not as yet gained good control. The batting of the whole squad has fallen off, owing to a tendency to offer at bad balls and to strike too hard...
...Fairchild opened his lecture by speaking of the value of the camera in giving permanent records for future study of scenes during strikes. He showed the camera containing 30 plates and capable of taking pictures at the rate of nearly one a second which he had constructed for this purpose. He then gave a history of the recent Albany Street Railway strike, illustrating his talk by views of strike scenes...