Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes the strikers sent a telegram: TO MEET PUBLIC DEMAND TO END THE STRIKE WE PROPOSE THAT ALL QUESTIONS AND DISPUTES BE SETTLED BY A BOARD OF ARBITRATION. Officials refused to arbitrate, 18 superintendents of New York cemeteries having agreed that the strike was unjustified...
...cemetery was heavily picketed and guarded, but the strike was quiet. A sympathy strike of some 2,000 New York City cemetery workers loomed as a grim prospect. Fourteen local unions, dock workers, wreckers, barbers, window cleaners, pledged support to the cemetery men. Families who experienced or expected Death hoped for more active, if less grave gravediggers...
...were in office now," said ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin last week with Cheshire-cat complacence, "everyone would be blaming me for this cotton strike...
...control more intimidating to employers than any show of violence?500,000 steady and skilled workers stopped work on the day the wage cut became effective last week. They are craftsfolk. Out of the question to replace them with scab labor not skilled to spin and weave! The cotton strike, colossal in magnitude, damaging to a dozen allied British trades, world-wide in repercussions, was, at its focus in Lancashire, almost terrifyingly simple: a stark, stubborn battle of wills between a Labor Monopoly and a Capital Monopoly...
Laborite Laissez Faire. Efforts to end the strike were not strenuously made, last week, by Britain's new Labor Government. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald seemed to think he needed a few days vacation, took it at his rustic Scottish home in Lossiemouth. Even kinetic Margaret ("Maggie") Bondfield, onetime shop clerk and now Minister of Labor, adopted a surprising attitude of laissez faire. True, a subcommittee of a subcommittee of a Cabinet subcommittee was established, "to consider and report upon" the situation, but even its chairman. Laborite Rt. Hon. William Graham. President of the Board of Trade, took only perfunctory...