Word: ultimatum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...
...wear that they had never joined, supported, or even believed in a subversive organization, faculty members would simply have to swear that they were not members of the Communist Party. But after eight months, 13.5% of the faculty had still not signed. Last week the Regents issued an ultimatum: any C.P. member, they said, automatically "has violated the terms on which he is employed . . . and shall be dismissed." For the 13.5% still holding out on the loyalty oath, whether hey were Communists or not, it had become a question of signing or resigning...
...room and the very cheapest food. I have nothing for clothing or emergency expenses." Other conductors agreed. Said one: "We have no other intention except to fill our stomachs. Why raise trouble if we could live on our income? . . ." The conservative South China Morning Post editorialized: ". . . their ultimatum has more economic basis than political: it will be agreed that some of them are underpaid...