Word: truces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...provided for a union shop), though many another captive-mine operator had signed, along with the commercial miners in the Appalachian district. Lewis threatened to strike the steel companies' mines a month ago. At the request of the National Defense Mediation Board, he agreed to a 30-day truce while the board tried to work out a formula for peace...
...Appalachian Association in agreeing to U.M.W. terms. Last week, with the signing of a contract which not only permitted but required some 12,000 miners in the district to join Bill Turnblazer's and John Lewis' union, victory was sealed. Observers hoped that peace, not just a truce, had come to Harlan County...
...shutdown as the result of a strike of A.F. of L. workers at the Calco Chemical Division of American Cyanimid Co., Bound Brook, N.J. Reason: the plant produces aniline oil, an accelerator for curing rubber. Management and employes, at the appeal of the National Defense Mediation Board, signed a truce, agreed to keep working while demands for a closed shop and 10?-an-hour rise were negotiated...
Hope of a tregua (political truce) for politically torn Argentina died aborning last week. In a huff the Chamber of Deputies cold-shouldered Acting President Ramon S. Castillo's plea of "urgent necessity" and adjourned without approving either a budget or a $110,000,000 loan from the U.S. This left the Government budgetless for its second consecutive year...
...slanderous to charge that Peru "had been improving the truce." The truth is that Peru accepted the armistice under the double condition that guarantees be offered to Peruvian residents of Ecuador, and that a decree of the Quito Government referring to mobilization be revoked. This last condition was only fulfilled on the 31st of July at twelve noon, and at 6 p.m. of the same day the Peruvian troops ceased firing...