Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sharp at 8 p. m. in Chicago one evening last week, 450 of the 800 city-employed electrical workers pulled their switches, walked out on strike. Out blinked all 94.558 municipal street lights. Off went all traffic lights in the Loop. Along the Chicago River, which slices through the city's midsection, 38 of the 55 drawbridges rose up to stay. Honking automobiles, clanging streetcars, cursing pedestrians piled up at the open bridgeheads, turned to fight their way back. Policemen shouted into dead telephones; their inter-communicating system was useless. State Street was bright with its private lighting system...
China, however, is developing a sense of nationalism and is rapidly gaining confidence in herself. She is becoming aroused over Japanese aggression and may some day strike back...
...apparent reasonableness of the General Motors officials at the beginning of the strike won for them sympathy throughout the country. Their subsequent behaviour has done much to dissolve this, Sir Galahad cannot flirt with such a prostitute as the Flint Alliance without losing some of his purity. Mr. Sloan has proven his own worst enemy. If, as now seems probable, he is forced by President Roosevelt or Congress to sit down at the conference table he will find his position badly undermined by an arrogance which has no place in modern industrial relations...
While U. S. newsorgans were churning out reams last week about the General Motors strike, Russian newsorgans were up in arms over troubles in the famed Gorky automobile plant. No strike was afoot in Moscow, for Russians know it is useless to strike. There were no fistfights, as in the U. S. There was just deliberate dawdling...
Last week, seamen were picketing the Department of Commerce in Washington, but some 8,000 seamen had accepted the books. Seaman Joseph Curran, leader of the East Coast shipping strike, organized a march of 1,500 strikers from Atlantic ports to reinforce the Washington picketers. Derisive shipowners asserted that the parade of cheering, dungareed men who rode into the Nation's Capital in battered trucks was the last flicker of the East Coast strike. Never authorized by Union heads, as is the Pacific Coast strike, the Atlantic fight has been nowhere near as clear-cut. On the Pacific last...