Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy's Communist-dominated Confederation of Labor, tried to stage a one-day general strike. Purported reason: to protest the deaths of two peasants who had tried to seize idle land and been killed in battles with police. The strike was an even more dismal flop than the walkout staged by Communists in France last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 5). The Italian strike stopped the steel and auto factories of the north; it was partly effective in the ports, and in urban transport systems. Nevertheless, millions of workers ignored the strike order. Instead of being paralyzed, Italy felt only...
...September 16, the capital of the Fund had dropped to $14,000,000, and it was forced to suspend all payments. Three days later, the nation's 480,000 hard and soft coal miners left the pits in what the UMW called a "spontaneous" walkout. The immediate reason given for the walkout was the default on fund payments by the Southern operators and the new slogan, "no welfare, no work," was conceived. The walkout, however, included the Northern and Western mines which sent their regular monthly payment of $3,000,000 to the Fund on September...
...moment had come. In a slower, creeping fashion-if the shutdown lengthened-unemployment would spread to railroads, auto plants, thousands of steel-dependent factories. In the wink of an eye last week, the nation's economic backbone was paralyzed by the first industry-wide steel strike since the walkout...
There was not even a rustling of hope in the U.S. coal fields. John L. Lewis' "voluntary" walkout hardened into a stubborn stalemate and his 480,000 coal diggers were morosely exhibiting John L.'s latest variation on an old theme-the no-day work week...
That did not faze old John in the slightest. He had not even bothered to talk with the southern operators, some of whom had precipitated the walkout (say the miners) by withholding payments to the welfare fund. He still refused to discuss his new contract demands with the northern operators. (Best guess: a boost in the present royalty for the fund to 30? a ton, reduction of the present eight-hour day to seven with no loss...