Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...five-day week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply...
Beginning November 10, make-up examinations will be held for all men who missed their Summer School examinations on account of service during the police strike. The schedule of these examinations will be announced later. The men who intend to take them must file a petition to that effect at the Recorder's office...
...strike of 500,000 bituminous coal miners set for November 1 holds no serious menace for the University, it was stated recently by Mr. Burke, superintendent of buildings and grounds. Although at present a considerable amount of the coal used by the University is semi-bituminous, the grates in most cases are devised in such a way that anthracite coal, the production of which will be unaffected by the strike, can be used as well as soft coal...
Radical labor is taking the bit in its teeth; it is breaking away from the control of its leaders. More and more is this fact being made evident. A few days ago, when the president of the Longshoreman's Association appeared before his organization to call off the strike that has paralyzed shipping in New York, he was mobbed; and it was only with difficulty that he escaped uninjured. A similar situation exists in the New York publishing business, where an outlaw organization of typesetters has broken with its officers and tied up the magazines to such an extent that...
...organization in the police department. Mr. Laski elsewhere propounds the doctrine of unchecked unionization and affiliation. Carry this theory to a further degree. After police, municipal employees, come federal and national employees, Why should not the Army or Navy unionize? An army strike for one tour of guard per year would increase the efficiency of the army surely...