Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week raise. Then four independent New York unions settled for the same figure and went back through N.F.T.W. picket lines. When N.F.T.W. President Joe Beirne conceded the end of his hopes for an industry-wide settlement and disbanded his National Policy Committee, the 30-day walkout collapsed with a resounding crash...
Across the nation strikes flickered here & there. But they were mostly the normal sparks from clashing industrial gears: 16,500 building-trades workers in Detroit; 14,000 employees at Inland Steel; 7,500 cement workers in the northeastern states. The only major strike was the month-old walkout of 340,000 telephone workers, who seemed on the verge of coming to terms this week...
...Wildcat. Labor Minister George Isaacs (see cut) was up to his neck in troubles. British labor in general seemed as touchy as a wildcat's ribs. Less annoying to the public than the Corporation workers' strike, but more jolting to the national economy, was an unauthorized walkout by about 10,000 of London's 24,000 dockmen. They struck in sympathy with Glasgow's 3,800 dockmen who walked out seven weeks ago when the Ministry of Labor ruled that about 500 of them would have to be dismissed (there was not work enough to spread...
...Walkout. The threatened strike against the New York Stock Exchange (TIME, April 28) was averted. Arbitrators will decide the wage dispute between brokers A. M. Kidder & Co. and the A.F.L. United Financial Employees' Union, which had moved to strike the Exchange unless Kidder came to terms. The union also agreed to leave the Exchange out of future fights with members for the duration of the contract...
Transcribed-show builders last week were smug-sure that Colman's walkout (for a guaranteed $150,000 a year) would some day become a stampede. Although NBC makes transcriptions, at least one energetic independent was ready with staff and know-how to handle runaways. He was hard-eyed, 41-year-old Frederic William Ziv, the producer of the Colman show and the big beglerbeg of the "open-end"* game...