Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towering manufacturer of industrial chemicals, father of the present Conference, into which he has mustered the active heads of 159 major British corporations; 2) For Labor, Mr. Ben Turner, jovial, moderate President of the British Trades Union Congress, a body so potent that it wrought the great British General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926), estimated to have cost the Empire not less than...
...usual when British Labor and Capital try to get together, they were baited, last week, by fiery Communist "Emperor" A. J. Cook, recent active generalissimo of the collapsed General Strike. He, discredited, little heeded, stormed: "An absolute farce! . . . The employers want us to sign a new creed of copartnership, co-operation and good-will forever. It is not economics they want, but theology and a doxology...
Picketing. Nineteen members of the Yale Liberal Club were arrested by the New Haven police for distributing union literature (which the Yale News described as "a dignified appeal to the intelligence of the community"), during a neckwear workers' strike. The Harvard Liberal Club commended their Yale brethren...
...Harvard Alumni Association. Mr. Wolcott was a member of Battery A. Massachusetts Militia for seven years and afterwards second and first lieutenant in Troop B of the Massachusetts Guard; as a member of the latter organization he was on duty in the autumn of 1919 during the police strike in Boston. On October 22, 1918, he enlisted as a private in the Army and was detailed to the Field Artillery Central Officers' Training School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Kentucky. He was discharged on November...
...Christmas communiqué lay ready for signing, last week, on the massive desk of Signor Benito Mussolini. With logic, reason and curt common sense he was about to strike at a custom that is old, endearing, hallowed. Dipping a pen in ink, Il Duce dashed his scrawly autograph upon the document: a command to all Italians that they must not send to him any form of Christmas or New Year's greeting...