Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape to further reduce their "biting power," and also instructed and trained each fencer not to strike his opponent on the body. With these weapons thus "doped" the fencers were far safer in this exhibition than in regulation epee bouts in which jagged wounds resulting from vicious close-in thrusts penetrate the protective fencing jackets on many occasions...
...Chicago last week, for the first time since a strike was called against three big independent steel companies - Republic, Youngstown, Inland-the basic law which is supposed to forestall strikes was finally invoked. Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, formally accused Inland Steel Co. before the Labor Board of "unfair labor practices" under the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Thus, after 70,000 men had been out of work for three weeks, the one legal question at the bottom of the strike was belatedly raised...
...undergraduates attend anti-war strike...
...week Government services were being supplied with oil by the Government-owned Petromex, whose employes do not enjoy the legal right to strike. But with about $60,000 a day in oil taxes being nicked from his budget, Labor-loving President Lázaro Cárdenas finally persuaded the strikers to go back to work, let a Federal conciliation board hammer out a settlement...
...Actors Guild got producers to meet its demands by a threat to join the strike of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts (painters, scene designers, hairdressers, make-up artists) which began April 30. By last week, Crafts pickets had been reduced from indignant lines to a single bored armband wearer at each studio gate. On the same day that the actors began working under their new scale, Federal Labor Conciliator Edward A. Fitzgerald arranged a compromise between leaders of the striking group and its rival, the International Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employes. Basis of the Fitzgerald compromise was that scenic artists...