Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What you need is One Big Union and One Big Strike...
...political organization, or as an industrial organization, which somehow could manage without "direct action," the One Big Union might be a successful organization with possibilities of unlimited power. As an organization whose chief functions would be to strike, the O. B. U. would have to possess more organizing ability than its leaders have yet shown if it would end in anything but disastrous failure...
...able to absorb all the other Trades Unions. Ultimately it became know as, The Union, and everybody had to join it. A National Program was drawn up, and a Great Conference was arranged. It was unanimously decided that in the event of the National Program being refused a General Strike should take place...
...very probable," said Mr. Charles C. Lane, Director of the University Press, "that at the close of the present printers' strike in New York, the strikers will find that many of the publishers employing them will have adopted the new method of printing introduced by the Literary Digest. The rapid improvement which each new issue of the Digest shows, and the comparative cheapness of the process, makes this seem likely...
Boston's police strike is the motive for two articles. The first, "Pan and the Populace," by Mr. Fuller, is a readable account of the author's experiences on volunteer patrol duty. Mr. Garrison's "A Plan for the Police," a sound and fair-minded discussion of the police problem, typifies the stand that the re-born Advocate has taken for enlightened liberalism...