Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blood splattered on the marble floor of the New Orleans City Hall last week as, for a second time, the street car strike in that city went berserk. Politics and Labor mixed to make an unholy brew of violence...
...which few if any of the taxi operators could or would meet. Last week the City Council prepared to enforce the ordinance, with the almost certain prospect of putting the taxis out of business, of forcing the public back to the empty trolleys, of weakening the effect of the strike...
...necessity for the issue is explained by the fact that some three years ago control of the New York subsidiary was seized by a group with Communistic leanings. They declined to accept arbitration and forced a strike which lasted for nearly six months, cost the union treasury some $3,500,000 in cash reserve, the workers some $30,000,000 in wages. The strike was a virtual failure. So the old officials stepped back in and reorganized...
...strike will materially improve the position of the union, Mr. Dubinsky explained because "out of 45,000 workers employed, 80% are girls. They are forced to work under standard conditions, which means that they are employed 50 hours a week and that their earnings do not exceed, in many instances, $25 or $30 a week...
...Bold Scot MacDonald who suddenly changed front, last week, ordered an airplane and flew from Lossiemouth to Edinburgh, where strike conciliation efforts were in progress. Arbitration seemed overnight to have become his goal. After a morning of high pressure secret conferences with cotton folk the "Flying Scot" hinted to correspondents that a basis of arbitration had been laid, would divulge no detail...