Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. On the first day there was a scuffle at the mill gates. Ailing Mrs. Charles Cardy, 45, a Penman's worker for 20 years, collapsed in the snow, later died in the hospital. Although the coroner ruled that Mrs. Cardy's death was not caused by strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed with women's hatpins. Children on the sidelines threw stone-filled...
Families & Friends. From the mill gates, the strike's acid corrosion spread all over town. Fiery Val Bjarnason, U.T.W.'s Ontario director, organized a march on the home of Mayor William England to demand the removal of the provincial police. The mayor, whose own daughter had marched in the strikers' picket line, went to the hospital to rest his shattered nerves...
...attack the union leadership as Communist. The League recalled that Kent Rowley, Canadian boss of the United Textile Workers, was interned under the defense-of-Canada regulations in 1940 and released in 1942. Although the Paris local's bylaws called for a two-thirds vote before a strike could be called, Rowley's office had authorized the Paris strike on the slim three-vote majority eked out at the first strike meeting...
Union leaders merely shrugged off the attack. With more than 100 Penman's employees still holding out, they said they were prepared to continue the strike indefinitely...
...kept his toes from the plate were just preliminaries. One Rickey innovation this year was the batting tee (see cut)-designed not so much to teach hitters how to hit as to supply figures for Rickey's brain-trusters. By adjusting the tee to every position in the strike zone, they thought they could tell who was standing and swinging properly and who needed special tutoring...