Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end uneasy U.A.W. delegates, after approving the Reuther demands, voted to increase strike assessments for March, April and May from $3 to $5 a man, toward raising the $24 million strike fund to $50 million. They hopefully added a feature Reuther had not asked for: in case a strike does not come off, the extra assessments will be refunded. Though there were optimists who believed that under cover of his distinctly inflationary profit-sharing plan Reuther would be able to bring home some more good old-fashioned inflationary pay raises. Detroit generally believed that, with the auto...
Bells of Defiance. Triggering the last brutal round was a crudely mimeographed manifesto calling for a general strike. The strike showed sinews of strength from the start. The morning before the deadline, grocery stores were crowded by foresighted housewives laying in supplies; knots of grim-faced workers idled on street corners. Half an hour before strike time, steel shutters slammed down on store fronts, and the usual bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal...
...long would Batista be able to operate without his coercive apparatus? Widely circulated Bohemia magazine announced that its next edition would contain many facts and stories suppressed under censorship. The rebels said they would try to bring off a general strike in Havana. At week's end, emboldened rebel bands seized two Havana radio stations long enough to broadcast anti-Batista recordings, forcefully pointing out what a general strike had achieved in Caracas...
...with troops on hand, no violence flared. To keep tempers down, the government canceled all liquor licenses, closed the bars and shops, where Scotch normally sells at $3.50 a fifth. Supervisors kept the power plant going; a few white housewives learned to bake bread at home. Though the strike dragged on, the union had little chance to gain its real goal of political power this time, or in this way. Meanwhile the colony was losing some $110,000 a day in tourist dollars...
...some 3,500 tourists fled home by cruise ship and plane. As they cleared out, a company of British troops flew in from Jamaica and a frigate steamed in from Bermuda to stand guard with local police. A militant Negro labor union had frozen sunny Nassau with a general strike, aimed at breaking the white minority's grip on political power...