Word: wildcat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crosby, drillers brought in a 1,000-barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche, who had leased 21,600 acres with three Chicago partners, had put up $200,000 to sink a wildcat. Just east of the small town of Rotan, Tex., where he had leased 1,500 acres, Randolph Scott and his partner found oil sands at 5,700 ft., hoped to be producing "within three weeks...
...palaver was beginning to make some of the steelworkers a little restive. At one U.S. steel subsidiary and two small independent plants, 5,300 workers walked out on wildcat strikes. Explained one local unionist: "We've built the boys up and they're ready to go. You just can't keep putting the cork back in the bottle." Philip Murray admitted there was "widespread restlessness," and added flatly: "This is the last postponement...
Three weeks ago the National Dock Labor Board (representing management and labor) refused to let the dockers go to work on any ship at all unless they unloaded the two Canadian ships. When troops were called in to take the place of the wildcat strikers, they stayed away from the two Canadian ships. Using troops to unload them would have settled the dispute, but the government knew what it was doing...
Explanation. Last week Prime Minister Attlee, aware of the Communist part in the strike, explained things to the House of Commons. Unloading the ships with troops would mean giving over to the wildcat strike leaders the power to decide what ships would be worked. Said Attlee: "It means that a group of irresponsibles can call a ship 'black' if it comes from a particular country with which a particular clique happens to be on bad terms. It may be France one day; it may be Yugoslavia another...
Nozaka's small, sleepy eyes twinkled. "Where workers are to be discharged, we oppose it and they back our struggle whatever their politics. There will be spontaneous wildcat strikes all over Japan all summer-locally led, of course. Workers will slow down. They will come late and go early. They will demand the exact letter of the law of the safety regulations. All these tactics can be very effective. We don't need big strikes or demonstrations if we have enough small ones...