Word: strife
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...Peking Government (with nothing but civil strife back of it) plaintively asks for the abrogation of the Treaty of 1915 containing the notorious "21 demands" which Japan, gun on hip, made her accept in 1915. Japan flatly refuses...
...long article in The American Federationist, official organ of the American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers declares labor banks to be no panacea for industrial strife...
According to the Public Prosecutor, the red movement was directed from Berlin and plans had been formed to provoke political strife in other allied countries...
While Austria is evincing a determined attitude by rejuvenating her decayed economic condition, she is as yet totally unable to deal with internal strife directed by the populace against the Jews and by the monarchists against the populace...
...June in the mining town of Herrin, Illinois. There is a coal strike on and all the mines are shut down. It is peaceable, good-natured, loafing summer strike, with none of the strife and bitterness of the cold weather conflicts in the coal industry. At the Lester strip mine all is quiet. Then one day strangers begin to appear in the town. They come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens...