Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free transportation for the populace was the answer of President Paul Magloire to an impromptu strike by the drivers of the share-the-ride station wagons, used in Haiti as buses and taxis combined. The drivers were protesting against a government measure that seemed to thrust at their very livelihood: a steep boost in the police fines they regularly expect and richly deserve. Few had bothered actually to read the new scale of fines, but according to the telejiol, Haiti's famed word-of-mouth communications network, merely sassing a cop could cost $24 instead of the traditional...
...bring some discipline to the country's highways, the government had indeed raised maximum fines, but only to $15, and no bond was demanded. After that was made clear-and after President Magloire urged judges to go easy on fining the maximum-the drivers ended the four-day strike and returned to their wheels. With the stupidity over, market women went back to walking to Port-au-Prince. They have always thought the 10? fare too high for a mere five miles...
...days in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., the city's only two dailies have been closed by a strike of the American Newspaper Guild. When Guild members on the morning Record (circ. 29,177) and evening Times-Leader-News (circ. 59,594) walked out during bargaining on a new contract, mechanical employees of the papers refused to cross the picket lines, thus forcing the papers to stop publishing altogether. Guildsmen wanted five-year minimums raised to $125 a week (from $103), a 35-hour work week (instead of 39), and fringe benefits. The Guild also objected to compulsory arbitration...
Last week the strike was finally settled after both the Guild and management compromised on all points, e.g., a minimum of $109 next year, a 37½-hour week, etc. Said American Newspaper Guild President Joseph F. Collis. who is also assistant managing editor of the Record and leader of the strikers: "We think we won because we came out with a better contract and a stronger membership." Disagreed Management Representative A. Dewitt Smith: "In strikes, as in wars, nobody wins." Cost to the employees: more than $650,000 in wages. Cost to the papers: more than...
...URANIUM STRIKE on the Colorado Plateau may turn the nation's biggest gold producer into a uranium miner. Homestake Mining Co., which produced $18 million worth of gold last year and has spent $500,000 looking for uranium, has discovered a rich deposit at the end of a 3,200-ft. tunnel driven underground next to Millionaire Geologist Charles Steen's fabulous Mi Vida mine...