Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haggard, hot-eyed Bittner, who speaks softly off the stump, heard 856 delegates, claiming to represent 78,000 workers, unanimously vote to strike all Armour plants if the big firm declines to negotiate with the C. I. O. Then he told reporters...
...American Federation of Labor and a committee, seeking his intercession to restore prevailing wages for union men on WPA. Contemplating the disorders being indulged in by their followers throughout the land, the President of the U. S. answered them by dictating a statement to his press conference: "You cannot strike against the Government...
...That either means joint wage agreements or the damnedest strike you ever...
...Walter Reuther's returns showed better than a 90% vote for the strike in all but one of the nine plants polled...
Many a European observer has guessed that the Nazis have two interlocking plans for war in Europe this summer: first a lightning-strike and then, if it fails, a deadlock in front of their defenses on the Western Front. If they win their Blitzkrieg they can take what they want; if they effect a deadlock, they can still bargain for concessions in return for Europe's peace...