Word: truce
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whizzed him down Uniontown, Pa.'s Main Street to Fraternal Hall between noisy ranks of striking coal miners. He had just flown in from Washington as President Roosevelt's personal emissary in an attempt to persuade balky United Mine Workers to live up to the strike truce their national leaders had signed (TIME, Aug. 14). At Fraternal Hall Mr. McGrady, his mouth set in a straight hard line, shouldered his way inside to face 128 local union leaders. Doors slammed. Locks clicked. Outside thousands of strikers waited and listened...
...strike leader, a magnetic Irishman named Martin Ryan. Straight at him Mr. McGrady directed his harangue, brandished the magic name of Franklin D. Roosevelt: "I'm here acting for the President of the United States and asking you to go back to work. You want to see the truce? Well, here it is all signed, in black and white (flourishing papers). Men, you stand to lose nothing by your agreement. You stand to lose everything by rejecting it. In the past maybe agreements were not carried out. But, by God, this agreement will be. ... I pledge you that...
...strike had not been settled. Fayette County miners, suspicious of the truce, refused to return to work at once. Over the weekend Leader Lewis worked frantically to regain control of his men, implored them to honor his signature on the armistice terms. Animosity was directed principally against the Frick mines whose reopening, under threat of renewed picketing and warfare, had to be post-poned one day. The Fayette County sheriff talked of appealing for U. S. troops to maintain peace. To prevent a recurrence of the Pennsylvania coal troubles elsewhere NRA appealed to the country for a moratorium on strikes...
...Park. When General Johnson woke up next morning in Poughkeepsie's Nelson Hotel the coal strike had been called off for the time being. The recovery program was again moving forward on an even keel. By his night flight General Johnson had not only patched up a strike truce but had also hornswoggled out of Capital & Labor a high-sounding agreement to keep the peace while he did his NRA job. Almost overnight the Pennsylvania coal strike had flared up from a local ruckus in Fayette County to a national menace. Trouble started with H. C. Frick Coke...
...sure to follow when Chinese hear a leader of their race actually grow bold enough to threaten Japan. The Canton Government of South China headed by General Chen Chi-tang promptly pitched into the Nanking Government "of all China" headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who has made a truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). In view of this truce. Generalissimo Chiang had dispatched 60,000 troops to quell War Lord Feng, only to receive demands from General Chen that he call them back. "Canton," wired Canton's Chen, "will not look on [at the sending of troops against...