Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boasting an ace twirler in Ingalls and a sharp-hitting, classy infield, the Varsity nine must uncover another dependable hurler and strike new life into a weak outfield in order to survive encounters with Yale and Dartmouth, the two teams challenging the Crimson's claim to the League championship...
More important to Britons than Italy's embargo on their Coronation last week was the continued strike of 25,000 London busmen demanding a 7½-hour day, slower schedules. The capital, without its 5,000 chugging, swaying, double-decker busses, which carry 5,000,000 passengers a day, looked strange, and only taxi-drivers, who did a roaring business, rejoiced in their absence. Two other labor clouds loomed ominously: first, many subway and streetcar workers were eager to stage a sympathetic walkout; second, miners all over the country threatened to strike a week after the Coronation, unless Harworth...
...keep on the right side of the public the slightly shamefaced busmen made two gestures: they offered to provide transportation during the strike for London's blind when they learned that 200 sightless men and women had been unable to get to work; they offered to carry passengers free on Coronation Day. Both schemes were firmly squashed by their bosses...
...Chief spokesman for the busmen was raucous Ernest Bevin, general secretary of London's Transport & General Workers' Union and one of Britain's most powerful Labor chiefs. Secretary Bevin had a double job on his hands: he had to get the best possible terms for the striking busmen and at the same time prevent the strike spreading to the subways and trams...
...labor clouds, talked discursively about "miners being human beings," about "practicing the arts of peace in a world of strife," about "democracy and its relation to our industrial conditions." Only once did he make any reference to the one topic uppermost in everyone's mind-the bus strike. He declared, "The whole world has its eyes today on London. ... I appeal to the handful of men with whom rests peace or war to give the best present to this country that could be given at this moment...