Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, A.F.L. pressmen and stereotypers won $6-a-week increases and two-year contracts after a strike that shut down all four daily papers for three days...
...some courses it was midyear examination week at the College of the City of New York; but in class after class only a handful of students showed up. Manhattan newspapers headlined the reason: about 2,500 students were on strike. For three days pickets paraded, hooted at "scabs," skirmished with police, cheered & jeered in mass rallies. They played dirges for the "death of democracy," took collections to "bury the bigots," flaunted signs inscribed NO HATE-MONGERS AT C.C.N.Y. and JOIN OUR QUIET RIOT. A long-simmering old dispute over two teachers, whom the college refused to fire, had boiled over...
...first there had been demonstrations, then weeks of smoldering discontent. Finally, under Student Council leadership, students voted to strike. Knickerbocker and Davis, they cried, must be suspended pending an "open trial." Nonsense, answered C.C.N.Y. President Harry N. Wright: "It is equivalent to lynch justice...
...first day of the strike, 18 students were arrested, 17 for disorderly conduct and one for assaulting a policeman, and that seemed to be about all that had been accomplished at C.C.N.Y. When some C.C.N.Y. critics muttered that the whole affair had been inspired by Communists, both the college and Strike Leader William Fortunato, president of the Student Council, denied it. But nobody denied that it was hard to keep the Commies from taking the strike over. For one thing, a representative of the Civil Rights Congress, labeled subversive by Attorney
General Tom Clark, turned up as a volunteer defender of the 18 strikers when they were taken to court. In midweek, the Easter vacation came, and C.C.N.Y.'s strikers stopped picketing the campus. The strike, they promised, would continue after the holiday...