Word: walkouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continued until Monday, during which time further efforts will be made toward mediation. The papers will until Monday be delivered as usual, but unless some sort of definite arrangement has by then been made, the newsboys declare themselves determined to carry out their threat of a complete and final walkout, to last until the Circulation Department may be brought to terms...
...century. By failing to pay a living wage to the heads of families the Passaic mills had drawn women and minors to them. A law designed to remedy this had been suspended. And it was the refusal of the manufacturers to allow their employes to organize that precipitated the walkout...
...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
...past few years if such a meeting had sat for three hours it could only have been explained by an attack of sleeping sickness or a walkout of the alarm clocks. Last night it was due to the fact that there were too many ideas on too many subjects. The Council is to be congratulated on its activity and its accomplishments. Particularly, since they are what will last, on its accomplishments...
Eden was officially shut down some 250,000 years ago following a "walkout" by the delegates of the human race, attributed to their breaking the Management's game laws. As far as can be determined, there was no opposition offered and no disturbance or damage to private property inflicted in protest. Today, under somewhat different circumstantiates, the newspaper Adam and Eve have been brought out of the newspaper Eden in the Maine woods,--hurriedly wrapped up in horse-blankets, and transported in the depute of flavor to answer to the charge of violating modern game laws...