Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the school officials attended: 1) Let all Negroes be segregated in corners of Emerson classrooms and in the school cafeteria. 2) Let no disciplinary reprisals be made upon the strikers when they should return. 3) Let the strikers not have to "make up" school work missed during the strike. 4) Let the Emerson Negroes be transferred to other schools as soon as possible. 5) Let an all-Negro high school be built in Gary as soon as possible...
Negro Alderman A. B. Whitlock did not insinuate that Ku Klux Klannism lay behind the Emerson strike. Instead, he firmly said: "This [appropriation] is a useless expenditure of the taxpayers' money. We have plenty of room now for all the schoolchildren of Gary. This money [$15,000] wouldn't equip a shack, and the site you propose is in a wilderness. There are no streets, no sewers, no facilities there...
...other leading candidates for president were Francis Wilson, the only charter member eligible (the president must be a prominent actor), and Otis Skinner. Mr. Skinner was a leader of the Actors' Fidelity League which opposed the now sovereign Actors' Equity at the time of the actors' strike in 1919. The hard feeling between these organizations, which is only now fading, was rumored to have raised factions in The Players. Mr. Wilson has always been a most ardent Equity protagonist. Any suggestion of schism was dispelled when Mr. Hampden was unanimously elected...
Admirer of the famed Gary system of secondary education wondered what connection there might be, if any, between that system and last week's strike of 1,357 pupils at the Emerson High School in Gary, Ind. The immediate details of the strike had greater racial than educational significance (see RACES...
...critic of the New York World, replied: "So far as controlling writing-that is impossible ... no one can get a stranglehold on brains. The products of writing men crop up in the most unexpected places, and every now and then a wholly unknown and obscure firm makes a ten-strike with a newcomer. . . . The making of books is free and unconfined, and unless someone gobbles up all the paper in the world, so it must continue...