Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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North Carolina's labor troubles were by no means confined to the Communist-led strike at Gastonia and its aftermath, the Charlotte murder trial (see above). At the Blue Ridge foothill town of Marion, an-other textile strike, directed by the conservative United Textile Workers of America, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, "went rough" last week, led to the summoning of National Guardsmen...
Fortnight ago the greatest British cotton strike since the War ended. In Manchester, Blackburn, Oldham, a halfmillion Lancashire cotton workers trudged from their dingy yellow brick houses back to the mills, agreed to abide by the decision of an Arbitral Board of Five: two workers, two employers and an umpire (TIME...
...many years ago Jim Thomas himself was tempted to take an executive, white-collar job with Britain's Great Western Railway. He had just led a successful strike. When the white-collar was proffered with a temptingly high salary Mr. Thomas went home and talked to his wife. According to an inspiring, legendary-tradition in the British Labor Party Mrs. Thomas said: "Jim, if you ever desert the union I will never speak to you again...
Even more startling was a resolution adopted by the General Confederation of Mexican Workers, a potent radical labor group. Denouncing "restrictions on the right to strike and dangers to workmen in the so-called 'Labor' code," the confederation resolved "to exhort all affiliated labor groups throughout the country to order partial stoppages of work and finally a general strike if Senor Fortes Gil's project is insisted...
Economists, statistically commenting on the cotton strike, estimated that it had cost $2,000,000 in lost orders, $15,000,000 in lost wages, close to $1,000,000 in doles made to strikers from their unions...