Word: walkout
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...carefully planned strike. First the workers were called out in a midcity area embracing the bee-busy garmentmaking district. Then the walkout was gradually extended until it paralyzed most of commercial Manhattan. Pickets walked back & forth quietly; there was no disorder. But millions of dollars worth of business was snarled. (Notably, garment makers in other cities began to gobble up some of Manhattan's markets...
...Port Arthur, Tex., pickets strode before a Texas Co. refinery carrying signs: "52 for 40 or Fight. This is a Walkout." The slogan meant that C.I.O. oil workers wanted 52 hours' pay for 40 hours' work. The drive was on for labor's first postwar objective: wartime wages at peacetime hours...
...Lancaster, Pa., broad-shouldered cops shouldered strikers out of the way when the Conestoga Transportation Co. tried to put trolleys back on the streets in an attempt to end a three-week-old walkout...
...cause of the well-bred walkout was reportedly the Viceroy's intention to modernize the administration of India's many petty states* in line with "changing times." Sensing a slight to their sovereignty, the princes were indicating their alarm at the "tendency to alter the States' relationship with the Crown." Some of the ruffled rulers even talked of "browbeating." Most sulked in their, princely mahals (palaces...
Detroit had need of such toughness. It was the heartland of a new flurry of strikes which extended from the Pacific Northwest lumber industry to a toolmakers' plant in Rhode Island. Detroit itself was almost without bread as the result of a walkout of 1 ,000 bakery drivers. In nearby Saginaw, Mich., 2,800 workers were out in three Chevrolet plants, as a result of a fight over a no-smoking rule. Usually mild Charles Erwin Wilson, president of vast General Motors, said Detroit was approaching "industrial anarchy...