Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast's 375 ships, costing shippers and shipowners millions of dollars a day. The strike was another dramatic show of power by U.S. labor's second most recalcitrant leader (after John Lewis). But last week Harry Bridges was hollering for help...
Your editorial on the Massachusetts labor referenda reflects clear and honestly objective thought, but I feel you have missed the real implications of referendum no. 6. Those of us who are against this proposition do not base our opposition to a required secret ballot strike vote upon the vague charge that a union may be deprived of its strike weapon through apathy of its membership, but on the more solid ground that such a provision has been tried before in federal legislation and has failed...
...Boston newspapers, Professors Sumner Slichter, John Dunlop, James Healy, Douglas Brown, Charles Myers, and Saul Wallen, all labor relations experts and impartial arbitrators, made this observation about referendum no. 6: ". . . The practical effect of this provision would be to cause union members to arm their representatives with a strike vote before negotiations begin. As a result, negotiations will tend to be conducted in an atmosphere of hostility and tension. A similar provisions in the War Labor Disputes Act (Smith-Connally Act) tended to cause strikes rather than prevent them...
Massachusetts voters will determine the fate of the so-called 'anti-labor' measures on the ballot next November 2. The referenda call for abolition of the union and maintenance-of-membership shops, annual election of union officials, and new regulations for strike-voting...
Granted this condition, the majority strike vote will serve to protect the worker from being called out on a strike he does not particularly favor and will protect both labor and society from the dislocation of unnecessary and unpopular strikes. Of the three proposals, the last seems to be the only one which would improve the labor-management-relations...