Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also told them that the company's fire insurance forbade smoking, but if any one wanted a cigaret he could come to the office. Several accepted. Then he produced three decks of cards and they played poker together all night. In the morning they agreed to settle the strike by arbitration...
...Another sit-down strike never occurred. In a leather plant at Grand Haven, Mich., 300 workers organized a "stay-in." They did their work by day, slept in the plant by night. The management of the plant did nothing, for the stay-inners were trying to prevent sit-downers from seizing the plant. Said the leader of the stay-inners: "We have nothing to gain from C. I. O. organization here and we have taken steps to make certain that our jobs will not be jeopardized...
...Martin did not touch on a fundamental social issue. For while it makes little practical difference to an owner whether his plant be shut by an inside or an outside strike-either way he is in effect deprived of the use of his property. Nevertheless, a plant cannot be shut from the outside unless a substantial majority of its employes join the strike. A very small minority of employes can generally shut down a plant by a sitdown. If the sit-down should be made legal, the question would still remain whether society would tolerate having its industries shut down...
...world press the deliberate lie that German forces had already landed at Ceuta, whereas the French Secret Service knew they only planned to do so. Exposed in advance, Dictator Hitler soon professed his "non-aggression," landed no Germans in Ceuta, and Der FÜhrer may not strike at Czechoslovakia during the Coronation if his Nazi schemes are sufficiently anticipated and aired to the world...
...outlet to the sea, raged indecisively. For the first time in five weeks, long-range shells from Generalissimo Francisco Franco's White guns zoomed into Madrid, struck the long-suffering, U. S.-owned telephone building, killed a half-dozen citizens. From the Madrid deadlock Generalissimo Franco turned to strike at Valencia where the Radical Government is taking cover, sent an attacking force to Viver, 34 miles northwest of Valencia, while invading White planes dropped incendiary bombs on Valencia itself. At Oviedo the Reds gained their only success. Reckless Asturian miners paced the streets, lit dynamite fuses from their dangling...