Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Economic boycott is a two-way street, and Negro reprisal efforts are by no means limited to the Montgomery bus strike. A persistent report-as persistently denied -that Coca-Cola bottlers had contribut ed to White Citizens' Councils caused a sales drop around Orangeburg, S.C. (where a Coca-Cola machine in a Negro-owned service station carried a sign saying, "This machine has economic pressure. It is dangerous to insert money...
...Algeria terror reached into Algiers itself when terrorists set fire to a garage in the heart of the city. Minister Resident Robert Lacoste arrived just in time to face down an angry committee of mayors who were threatening to strike if some 100 terrorists in French jails were not executed immediately, clapped a midnight-to-dawn curfew on the whole city. But the tide of hate ran on. In a single day 47 rebels and two Frenchmen were killed. The. dead bodies of another 100-odd victims were turned up in the course of the week. The president...
Finland was gripped by the first general strike in its 36-year history as a republic. The strike was brought on by 200,000 members of the trade union federation who walked off their jobs, demanding a 6% wage increase to meet a recent hike in dairy prices made by Finland's farmers' marketing organization. As the strike entered its third week, all industry was at a standstill, and strikers were hard pressed for money to feed their families. But there was a remarkable absence of any real violence among the imperturbable Finns. At week...
...should take to do it. A time study man with a ticking stopwatch can show up on a factory floor and in an hour bring a giant production process to a halt; an argument over time studies is one of the biggest causes of the five-month-old strike at Westinghouse (TIME, Oct. 24 et seq.). Of the 3,399 grievance cases the American Arbitration Association handled last year, 23% were caused by disputes over job standards, wage incentives and time studies. In the past six years "more than 25% of all man-hours lost from work stoppage were directly...
...marathon strike against Westinghouse Electric Corp. neared the 150-day mark last week, hopes for a settlement suddenly rose. A panel consisting of one federal and two state mediators wrapped up a package of compromises and submitted it to company and union. Westinghouse promptly accepted. The International Union of Electrical Workers hesitated for two days. Then it tossed the package back at the mediators. Said President James B. Carey: "Unacceptable...