Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surplus State Railway workers alone being fired. To leave the capital market free to industry, M. Reynaud promised that the Government would float no long-term loans until May. The recovery program pinched almost everyone, but the most anguished cries came from the labor unions, whose protestant general strike failed...
...days following the start of the strike, John Russell '32 took charge as coordinator. The Student Union and the Teachers' Union took part, with undergraduates helping out in the picketing. Wives of Faculty members aided the strikers by preparing food for the strikers...
According to Russell, the weather was favorable, and picketing was interrupted by rain on only two days Harvard students picketed at various times during the strike and also between 11:30 and 12:30 o'clock at night when the theatre crowd was heaviest...
Some coal users shifted to oil. Anthracite operators not strike bound, jumped production 49%, despite a price rise of 15? per ton. But the 40,000,000-ton pile of bituminous was burned down to some 20 to 25,000,000 tons, leaving coal's statistical slate clean...
...struggle for "democracy in education" the Teachers' Union is by its charter denied the right to strike. In the fight for less topside control at Harvard, however, it has used tellingly the chief weapon at its disposal: the keen sword thrust of reasoned criticism. And behind that thrust are many of Harvard's much talked of "younger men." The Union's fight for the retention of Walsh and Swoezy may have been in vain. But this year's trenchant proposals for tenure reform and complete departmental democracy may cut more ice with the powers that be than the Faculty Committee...