Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferguson down to Washington to face each other (though both live in Detroit, they had never met). After an all-night session at the Pentagon, they came to terms. Bendix agreed to withdraw a $2,000,000 damage suit against the union, to rehire immediately 43 of 47 wildcat strikers who marched off the job in a squabble over assembly-line speeds. The union agreed to new negotiations on wages and production schedules, and to withdrawal of charges of unfair labor practices against Bendix...
...miracle seemed capable of brightening Britain's dark economic prospect, which included declining exports, talk of devaluing the pound, and growing pressure on Labor's "full-employment" dikes. But as the cabinet held another emergency meeting to deal with wildcat strikers, the strikers themselves showed signs of coming to heel. In Liverpool 8,000 dockers voted to go back to work. For the fifth successive Sunday, striking locomotive crews dislocated rail traffic; but the stoppage was less severe than on previous weekends, for some crews worked in defiance of the strike leaders' pleas...
Meanwhile, union members, disappointed by nationalization, were becoming increasingly hard for their government to handle. Last week, a wildcat strike of railway workers against the nationalized railway system was spreading. Liverpool dockers were out, and London truckers were engaged in a slowdown. In London, even the men who wash milk bottles had struck...
...Reader Ripley's memory has wandered slightly: the stylish Bank Exchange's presiding genius was Duncan Nichol, and potent Pisco Punch ("Two, and you'd hug a wildcat") was his invention. Pisco John's was a sailors' pub a few blocks away...
Washington readers could not remember a time when their daily newspapers had missed publication-until last week. Then a wildcat strike of A.F.L. pressmen shut down the capital's four dailies for a day, until the International Union ordered the strikers back. This week the pressmen struck again, after Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had tried all night to settle the dispute over wages and hours. A.F.L. stereotypers walked out too. The second strike, blessed by the International's officers, hit the afternoon papers first-the Star and the Daily News-and shut them down. Pickets also appeared...