Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still shaking its head over the sharp words of the report with which the majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shaped by seven Democratic Senators, rebuffed him and his bill. Second major Congressional grievance against the President was his failure to use his official prestige against sit-down strikes, and his acquiescence in the development of the present strike situation. Behind these were older grievances, such as his planning his legislative program without so much as a by-your-leave to his Congressional leaders...
Youngstown continued in a state of siege, and when a Saturday crowd of women strike sympathizers started heckling Sheriff Ralph Elser's police cordon at the Republic Steel plant, a riot started in which police tear gas was answered by birdshot and bullets from thousands of unionists. Two men were killed, 25 persons wounded, including Mary Heaton Vorse, liberal writer...
...Janeway disarmed Mayor Shields's vigilantes and Johnstown settled down to its first taste of martial law since the 1889 flood. C.I.O. picket lines, now unnecessary, were withdrawn. Despite Mayor Shields's cry of "usurpation," Colonel Janeway took over full police powers where they touched on the strike, sending the local police back to their beats or traffic posts. Otherwise the civil authority was not disturbed...
...Civil Liberties Committee. So highly did the young Wisconsin Senator value the reel as evidence in the Committee's investigation of the Memorial Day riot that he defied a subpoena for the film voted by the Senate Post Office Committee, which is pondering a general steel strike investigation...
...crying produces more tears than the tear ducts can carry off, and the excess overflows the lower eyelids onto the cheeks. This phenomenon has been occurring on all sides in recent weeks as police heaved gas grenades which spurted clouds of white fumes into the eyes and nostrils of strike mobs in seven States...