Word: walkout
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...walkout immediately blocked some 5,000 long-distance trucks which daily rumble into the metropolitan area with much of the city's food, manufacturing and mercantile supplies. Strike leaders promised to keep food and essential drug supplies moving, but in many cases drivers refused to haul food to chain stores, most of whose shelves were almost empty...
...Supreme Commander was annoyed because strikes were tying up vital communications and public utilities. He suspected that Communist-tinged unions especially those affiliated with the clangorous Congress of International Unions (Japan's C.I.O.), were using their privileges to sabotage the occupation. When a seamen's walkout at Sasebo halted the sailing of five merchant ships which were to bring repatriates from the Ryukyu Islands and Manchuria, MacArthur decided it was time for plain speaking. He directed the Japanese Government to man and operate the ships and take necessary steps to prevent further walkouts. The Government was to carry...
...walkout came to an end when it was agreed that vegetables harvested from the gardens would be equitably distributed. Flurried by the unexpectedly bold action of the children, the teachers visited the homes of the young strikers to apologize for their highhanded action and ask for their immediate return to the school...
...wake of the soft-coal and railroad strikes, and with the loggers' walkout drying up western Canada sources, many a daily and weekly was harder put to it for paper than during the war. The Los Angeles Times shrank one day last week to eight parres. In St. Louis, Dallas. Houston and a dozen other cities, paper-starved dailies went adless to stretch their dwindling hoards...
...some 4,000 other members of the A.F.L. Canadian Seamen's Union, who want an eight-hour day. (Present working day: 12 hours.) Ready to go out also were 6,000 A.F.L. textile workers in Quebec. Only the last-minute appointment of an inquiry commissioner averted a walkout by 10,000 C.I.O. rubber workers in 14 Ontario plants for a 20?-an-hour raise and a 40-hour week...