Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having locked themselves in their projection booths with food & water for a sitdown, the two operators thus announced their strike by playing on the sound equipment a record prepared in advance, an idea originated by the business agent of Local 306 of the Motion Picture Machine Operators Union (A. F. of L.). Two other operators did the same thing in another Manhattan theatre (run by the same corporation) the same night. Their demands were met by 6 a. m. the following morning...
Moray then walked out, returned to speak again vaguely on the Matrimonial Causes Bill, then walked toward the Throne rolling a cigaret and made as if to strike a match...
...Priscilla's crew had been conducting a sit-down strike in New York harbor and came ashore only when driven by hunger. In Fall River, the striking crew of the Commonwealth packed their kits, debarked with sombre faces. For not only was their strike ended but so, it seemed, was the Fall River Line...
...never tell when one of those hill billies [among the spectators] will pump a six-gun at him." He had done it all absolutely without charge or fee, paying even his own expenses. "What a glorious opportunity it was for the lot to fall to a Jew to strike a blow for the emancipation of the colored race! ... It has given me a vista of 14,000,000 people ... in the chains of bondage...
...certain industries like automobiles there was no doubt that the margin of profit was narrowing. Chrysler Corp., in spite of its five-week strike last spring. sold 629,706 cars and trucks in the first six months of 1937. a record; It took in $409,000,000 compared with $358,000.000 in the same period last year. Yet profits were down from $29.000.000 to $27,000,000. Even in the June quarter when Chrysler had little to charge off to strikes, the company's profit margin showed a sharp drop, from 19.8% in 1930 to 14.7% in 1937. Labor...