Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor was judge of Detroit's Recorder's Court, he had sentenced to prison for forgery. Investigation disclosed that the ex-convict and ten of his companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action as a "form of banditry," and a swarm of 300 policemen raided and routed them. With public opinion swinging behind them at the revelation of these "professional sit-down strikers...
...pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back to the strikers, and United Automobile Workers' young President Homer Martin seized the occasion to threaten a city-wide general automobile strike unless the police raids stopped. After a weekend lull, police evicted sit-downers in a printing plant, a W. P. A. station. Labor and the Law moved toward a showdown as Detroit's City Council unanimously refused the automobile union's request for permission to stage a huge mass...
...foreigners, and with gusto he let himself go about the Italians: "Are these the men on whom the countries which wish to in flame the world must rely? Then I say to the Democratic countries: 'Awake! Do not fear these armies of tin soldiers which try to strike fear into the hearts of the world! Their inefficiency has been dis closed in Spain...
...citizens of Clichy to form a procession to demonstrate in front of this thea tre!" Keeping steady, the police commander refused him such permission. At this, citizens of Clichy began flinging paving stones, empty bottles and a little fierce rioting began with brawny wenches active in baiting police to "strike a woman." By now the crowd was swelling to an ultimate 10,000 and something like a total of 3,000 police were moving up. Inside the Olympia about 300 Social Party members sat watching on the screen The Battle, while outside battle was already raging or about to rage...
...debt retirement checked the cracking prices of Government bonds, which despite more determined Treasury support dropped to new lows for the year. In the last three weeks the market value of all Government securities had shrunk more than $1,274,000,000. Already jittery from a continual rattle of strike news, the stockmarket continued to follow suit, steady selling erasing more than one-half the ground gained since the turn of the year...