Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wondered vaguely to what sort of rendezvous this dress rehearsal was leading. . . . The following morning the newspapers announced Mr. Lewis' call for the third walkout of the coal miners since the March 31 armistice...
...utilizing all available shipways. Companies were accused of grabbing orders just to keep a comfortable backlog. Labor was lambasted for demanding double time for holiday work, for refusing to work ten-hour shifts. (Last week 1,000 workers at Richmond [Calif.] shipyards perversely staged a one-day walkout because they wanted ten-hour shifts instead of eight-hour...
...jubilantly announced that only one strike of "primary significance" was delaying the defense program: a walkout of 90 C.I.O. autoworkers at the Rausch Nut & Manufacturing Co. (nuts & bolts for airplanes...
...Labor Leader Lewis it was a big and gratifyingly noisy success. To the U.S. it was time wasted that could never be bought back. To the miners themselves it was another weary walkout. Before a truce came last week to the sooty soft-coal hills of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the strike ordained by John L. Lewis had cost some 200,000 miners a week's wages, had cost the defense program at Carnegie-Illinois* some 30,000 tons of steel (enough for 3,000 light tanks or 30 destroyers...
WASIUNGTON (UP) -- Congressional action "at the earliest possible moment" on anti-strike legislation was promised by House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D., Texas, today as legislators bitterly denounced mine chieftain John L. Lewis for calling a walkout in the captive coal mines...