Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months old also, and far from ineffectual, was the Pacific Coast strike -with 240 ships and 40,000 men still idle, losing $7,000,000 a day - but five days after the eastern strike collapsed Longshoreman Harry Bridges, leader of the western strike, announced : "There is a growing sentiment in the rank and file for settlement and nothing can change it now." A peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick...
...most of the independent automobile unions merged with United Automobile Workers last year, he led his A. I. W. A. locals into the fold, became U. A. W.'s chief organizer in the Detroit area. As such, he was in the front trenches when the great General Motors strike (see p. 14) began last December...
...three months, an insurgent strike led by Seaman Joseph Curran tried ineffectually to tie up Atlantic and Gulf ports. Last week the strikers, weary of futile picketing and fighting, voted on peace. Only in four of 14 ports was a majority for carrying on. Chief gain that Seaman Curran could claim in surrender was that "East Coast shipowners have been kept so busy they have not tried to break up the West Coast strike...
...Strike-badgered General Motors scarcely had time to notice this week that a Scottish member of its board, hearty Sir Harry Duncan McGowan, was raised to the peerage as a Baron by His Majesty King George VI, who released last week his first Honors List. Sir Harry, easily the biggest Briton on the list, was knighted in 1918 for putting through efficient mergers of munitions firms. He has long been rated "the highest salaried industrialist in Great Britain," a key figure in Rearmament today, and is Board Chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries...
...Most Eligible Bachelor" there was perhaps no second, but last week Norfolk was "England's Most Eligible Bachelor," and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin went to his wedding with matronly feelings duplicated outside the church by Englishwomen so enthusiastic that some, striving for a better view, staged a sit-down strike in the middle of the street until lifted aside by courteous Bobbies. Partly because the Protestant bride has not yet become Catholic (as both families expect she will) and partly because nothing could add lustre to a wedding so entirely aristocratic, the candles were unlighted, the Oratory was undecked...