Word: wildcatted
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...London's cinemas last week, a grim, low-budget little picture called The Angry Silence played to packed audiences and drew queues at the box office. Its story: the ordeal of a factory hand ostracized by his mates for refusing to join a wildcat strike. As punishment, his fellow union members "sent him to Coventry"* and thus condemned him to life in a silent, hostile world...
...spoken to Dobson because he insists on his right to join the Amalgamated Engineering Union instead of either the boilermakers union or the sheet metal workers union, which monopolize the plant. Dobson once belonged to the boilermakers at another plant, was called out on three wildcat strikes, and now he says, "I don't want to get mixed up with an irresponsible union again...
...Wildcat--11 to 30, 6 powder, good...
...Hampshire--Franconia, Mt. Sunapee, Cranmore, and Wildcat. Vermont--Hogback, Smuggler's Notch, Big Bromley, Snow Valley, Jay Peak, Pico Peak, Stowe, Mad River Glen, Sugarbush, and Mt. Ascutney...
...Wildcat--11-22, packed powder, fair...