Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Martyrdom was missing. Defendant Fred Erwin Beal, Gastonia strike organizer, principal defendant, supposed Communist, when it came his turn to speak, weaseled. Loudly had the Communist press hailed him as a hero. Faced with a possible sentence, Defendant Beal, 33, pale, broad, fleshy, in a low voice denied his Communist principles, did not advocate revolution, had no objection to policemen, however violent in line of duty. The defense counsel wanted no martyrs...
...understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over, the major situations confronting the Board last week were as follows: Wheat. A European buyers' strike made the U. S. supply mount up to peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield and the scare of a world wheat shortage. Latest crop estimate: 792,000,000 bu. compared to a final crop yield of 902,749,000 bu. last year. Market (Chicago, No. 2 red) last...
...know why our brotherhood should not be in this, the largest labor organization in the world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken by the federation with a fervent, choral...
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...When the mine is lowered a cable is fastened to it which runs above and below the mine itself. To explode the mine a ship does not have to strike the cylinder, it may touch any part of the cable, and an electrical contact will set off the dynamite. This device makes possible many explosions which would otherwise never occur, as a vessel rarely strikes the mine...