Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON, April 6-With only ten hours remaining before the deadline for a cross-country telephone walkout, Joseph A. Beirne, president of the National Federation of Telephone workers, said tonight "tomorrow morning we strike...
Like most U.S. white-collar workers, Buffalo's teachers had not thought of themselves as union labor: only 500 had joined either the A.F.L. or C.I.O. teachers' unions (which supported, but did not declare, the strike). Buffalo's walkout was the work of the independent Buffalo Teachers Federation, which insisted even on the picket line that it was a "professional association" and not a union...
...With the walkout only a few hours away, Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell conferred with both sides in Ottawa. More Government assistance, said he, was out. If the Carroll compromise were accepted, the 40? would have to come out of a higher coal price. But the operators found that unacceptable. Only skeleton maintenance crews were left underground. Industries and cities dug into the coal which they have been stockpiling. Most coal users had enough on hand for a few weeks. But Nova Scotia cities were already talking about dimouts and other conservation measures...
Last week the Labor Government wiggled out from under its worst labor scare yet. A wildcat strike of about 500 London truck drivers had mushroomed into a walkout of about 40,000 sympathizers and threatened to spread disastrously through the country. The Government got the strike ended in its eleventh day, but it was severely clawed by the wildcatters. So was the strong but unwieldy Transport and General Workers Union, to which most of the strikers belonged. So was London's long-suffering public. The truck drivers had struck in protest against union and government bumbling that had delayed...
...winter gale ever tied up Nova Scotia's deep-sea fishing fleet so completely as the strike that held it in port last week when the fishing weather was fine. While the fleet's 30 schooners, trawlers and draggers lay at the docks, the walkout had spread from deep-sea crewmen (500 strong) to hundreds of sympathizing inshore fishermen. Soon it would force the closing of processing plants and fish-box factories, thus shut down the province's entire fishing industry...