Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Edouard Daladier was put in power last April by the votes of the Popular Front (his own Radical Socialists, Socialists, Communists). The Premier's Popular Front support cracked after Munich. After he broke last fortnight's general strike, it washed out. Nevertheless, Edouard Daladier remained Premier of France. With Socialists and Communists voting solidly against him, with 28 members of his own party and a few others abstaining, but with almost the whole Right coming to his aid in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Daladier won a respectable vote of confidence: 315 for, 241 against...
...hours M. Daladier addressed the Chamber in language that impressed even the reporters. He charged that the Communists had plotted the general strike to shake him out of office, claimed he had police records and Communist manifestoes to prove it. "Its aim,'' M. Daladier said, ''was to bring about the resignation of the government through a popular demonstration. To do that the strike leaders did not hesitate to try to hold up the whole life of the country...
Police clubs clunked on the heads of Newspaper Guildsmen and blood was spilled in the shadow of Chicago's Civic Opera Building on Wacker Drive last week as the Guild staged its biggest strike. Out of the Hearst-owned Herald & Examiner and evening American had walked 600 editorial, business and circulation workers on the grounds that their contracts with the papers had been systematically violated...
...advertised "$5 FOR PHOTOS." Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart. At week's end, 46 American strikers announced through a Hearst spokesman that they were going back to work, adding "It was fun while it lasted...
...quickest ways to accomplish something is to strike while the from is hot. No doubt the Committee for Pan-American Scholarships was aware of that fact. And yet the iron appears to be too hot. The College has the conviction that the drive is not quite straightforward, that it is almost a prank. Whether or not his is the case, the subject is far from inopportune, and for that reason it is regrettable that the timing is poor...