Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seventh week in the strike of some 35,000 C.I.O. Communications Workers against the Southern Bell Telephone Co. (TIME, May 2) was the most violent yet. Seven Southern Bell exchanges and stations were burned or dynamited. However, last week's sabotage did not slow up Southern Bell service as much as a harassing scheme called "Operation Zilch...
...told, only 700 electricians and engineers walked out, over demands for an $8.19 pay raise to bring their average pay to around $40 a week. The papers could have printed, but in Britain, when one union walks out, other union men would not think of breaking the strike. Thus some 23,000 printers, pressmen, etc. had no papers...
...E.T.U.-A.E.U. did not strike London's Communist Daily Worker, which does not belong to the Proprietors' Association. The paper said that it would meet the E.T.U.-A.E.U. demand. However, the Worker's compositors walked out on the grounds that if the Worker could afford to boost wages of maintenance men, it could take back compositors laid off in a recent economy drive. Twelve days after the strike's beginning, the Worker settled with all its employees, and for two weeks it was London's only daily (TIME, April...
When Fleet Street's publishers sat down with the E.T.U.-A.E.U. to try to end the strike, they found that the union bargainers were almost all Communist Party members. While wages were an issue, there was no doubt that the Communists were taking the opportunity to flex their muscles, show the public that they could hit where it would hurt most...
...Britain's responsible labor unions that forced an end to the strike. Twelve unions, representing out-of-work printers, pressmen, etc., asked the top-level Trades Union Congress to put a stop to the Communists, then laid down their own ultimatum: if the strikers refused to ease their demands, the printers would go back to work anyway, handle electrical and maintenance jobs themselves. At that, the strike leaders capitulated, were handed a $1.40 raise by the publishers, just about what they had been offered in the first place...