Word: strike
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Harvard Socialist Club, in company with students from other institutions, in and near Boston, will take an active part in the dressmakers' strike which has been called today. The demonstration, which is organized by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, will take place in Strike Hall. 25 La Grange Street, Boston, starting at 8.30 o'clock...
...socialists will play a role of picketing similar to that performed by New York students in the strike of the same Union which occured there recently. To insure a high standard of efficiency and maintain a spirit of optimism among the insurgents, the students will relieve each other in frequent shifts...
...leaders of the revolution wanted. One hundred and nine miles and a mountain range with peaks 10,000 feet high separate the city of Santo Domingo from Santiago de los Caballeros. The road, fortunately for Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full progress, Courier Cabot dashed onward. Back in Santo Domingo white-haired nephritic President Horacio Vasquez prudently sent his wife to the American Legation, retired to the city's fortress, took command of the garrison...
Coal Picks Up. In almost optimistic vein it is admitted that the British coal trade, hardest hit by the British General Strike and Coal Strike of 1926, and very nearly prostrate for years afterward, is now at last "convalescent...
...made a deliberate and successful effort to accommodate the U. S. Government. No rail president is more popular in Washington than B. & O.'s Daniel Willard. He first won the favor of President Harding in 1922 when he promptly settled on equitable terms the great shipmen's strike for his line while other carrier presidents were stubbornly bucking the union. White House rail patronage was shifted from the Pennsylvania to the B. & O. where it remains to this day for all presidential excursions westward. The B. & O. carried Herbert Hoover back and forth across the continent during...