Word: wildcatted
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However, the Local had no permission from the International Guild to stage the strike. Feeling that this wildcat strike was a bluff, the company refused to arbitrate; the president and secretary-treasurer of the Local returned to work two days later...
...Corp. into putting up a gas station for him. He soon had a second. He made the two pay $1,000 a month. But he burned for great wealth; though the Depression was at its deepest and oil was down to 10? a barrel, he began gambling in wildcat drilling ventures. He sank a dry hole, sold one of his service stations, and sank another...
...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...
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...