Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women & Tear Gas. In Lodz (pronounced Woodge), 75 miles southwest of Warsaw, the early shift of streetcar workers reported for work one 3 a.m. last week, but no cars left the barns. Instead, before the day was over, 6,000 men and women employees were on a sitdown strike, demanding that their 800-zlotys monthly pay (enough to buy one pair of shoes) be increased 50%. The militia fired tear gas and wielded clubs. A worried Gomulka dispatched a trade union chief, a vice-minister and a security general from Warsaw, called out the troops to keep order, pressed...
When the vice-minister appealed to the sitdowners to end their strike, a woman in the audience held up a tear-gas canister and asked: "Is this what you use against women?" The militia used tear gas again the second night, and after routing strikers from the car barns got the trolleys moving, with guards on each. The strike was over, broken not only by a show of force, but by the government's promise to look into the strikers' complaints...
...that outran the nation's capabilities. And out of the frustration came a steady pressure for the quicker techniques of totalitarianism. Kerala State on the Malabar Coast has already elected a Communist administration; a Communist-Socialist coalition rules the city of Bombay. Fortnight ago, faced with a nationwide strike of postal and telegraph workers that might spread to 400,000 government employees, Nehru himself rushed through Parliament a bill outlawing strikes in "essential industries...
...German armies were driven back, the victorious Allies chopped off half of Krupp's steelmaking capacity, carried the equipment away, destroyed 2,000,000 machines and tools. But they could not destroy the spirit of Krupp's workers, who halted the dismantling process by going on strike during the French occupation. Furious, the French threw Gustav in jail for seven months. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying on armaments research...
...Krupp worker, there is a retired worker drawing a healthy company pension. Krupp runs a hospital for its workers, maintains theaters, sports grounds, clubs, even operates its own food stores to force down the price of food for workers. Though unionized, Firma Fried. Krupp has never had a company strike...