Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gradually, as President Ben opened and showed his mind, observers understood why the British Unions were whipped in the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29, 1926), why they have just accepted a 2½% cut in railway wages (TIME, Aug. 6), and why Great Britain is so safe for Constitutional Monarchy and employer Peers...
...General Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...
...pitiable little scene passed almost unnoticed amid the triumph of MONDISM. Famed A. J. "Emperor" Cook, the fighting Laborite who precipitated the General Strike, rose and began to address the Congress with torrential passion, crying that trade unions exist not to cooperate with employers' associations but to wring concessions from them...
News of the beggars' dilemma, the bakers' strike, was partly disseminated by the Davar, Hebrew labor daily, which last week was given a linotype machine, equipped to compose in Hebrew and English, by the National Labor Committee for the Organized Jewish Workers in Palestine, headquarters in New York City...
...deliberately gratuitous insult I have ever received." The students at the Slade School marched through the streets of London, carrying headless effigies of Lord Leverhulme which they burned. All over Italy, artists, dealers, masons, picture packers, illustrators-everyone who had anything to do with "art"-declared a 24-hour strike to indicate their horror at so grotesque a vandalism. Grandly and sheepishly, Lord Leverhulme offered a public apology. The incident did not improve Painter John's opinion of soap manufacturers; had the plutocrat who addressed a request to him last week been such a one, Augustus John would doubtless...