Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lamont construction is back on schedule again and engineers hope for an early fall completion of the building, now that the month-long strike of masons has been settled. The walkout over a wage dispute had threatened to halt all other work on the building...
...Lewis himself for criminal contempt of court. Shaken by that and the threat of more to come, Lewis had wired his union chiefs: "I do hope [the miners] immediately return to work." To make sure they did, Morison had got an 80-day injunction prohibiting Lewis from ordering another walkout. Now Morison was ready to put the gaff...
...barrage of yowls and hisses from the floor. One excited delegate jumped up to the mike, crying: "The country is almost lost! How can we talk about moneybags? To save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust us ... arm us and we shall fight the Communist bandits...
They were lean, hard-boiled young sailors from the A.F.L. Seafarers International Union. The Seafarers, following the pattern of C.I.O.'s brawling National Maritime Union in helping striking white-collar workers, had decided to put some noise and muscle into the Financial Employes' walkout. When the cops moved in on them to clear the entrances, the seamen had their own roughhouse counter-move ready. They rushed the cops, blocked the exchange entrance with a carpet of bodies. The surprised policemen started swinging their clubs-and the first labor brawl in Wall Street's history...
...Soviet Union on the other. Intended as a policy and lawmaking body for the four-power occupation of Germany, the council had degenerated into little more than a launching site for propaganda rockets. Making more propaganda, Russia's Marshal Vasily Danilovich Sokolovsky took a pre-arranged walkout (TIME, March...