Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unions, like management, would be legally responsible for violation of contracts. Heretofore, some unions have violated labor contracts with little fear of penalties. Individuals who went on "wildcat" strikes (outlawed by union leaders) could be fired...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
...staking area, has become a throbbing, roistering place of 3.000 people, quick riches, hard living, crudity and fun. Said one amazed visitor: "Just like a movie set, only more so." The restaurants have a frontier ring to their names: Lil's Place, the Wildcat Café, Ruth's Roving Hornet. The one movie house shows three-year-old films. The traditions of the "mushers" of the dog sleds are carried on by the "cat skinners" who drive the caterpillar trains (tractors and sleds) which bring supplies across the snow from Edmonton. Passenger service to & from Yellowknife, as well...
...Argument? In Dillon, S.C., Harmon Herring, fresh from a touch-&-go wrestling match with a wildcat (which he finally throttled), announced authoritatively that no man can lick his weight in wildcats...
Already Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, onetime tailor, speaking for the new mine boss, the Government, had warned of "drastic action" against wildcat strikes. Said he to Scotland's pitmen: "Nationalization is not intended primarily to benefit the miner. There is the coal consumer to be considered, the interests of the nation, our export trade and all that...