Word: strike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, things were not going at all well for the Maharaja of Baroda. His 250 servants went out on strike for higher wages and union recognition...
...could see last week, the future looked rosy. Operations of Big Steel, he said, should continue at 100% of capacity for another six months, then slip off to perhaps 85%. To some it looked suspiciously as if Big Steel, trying hard to make up the profits lost during the strike, was raising prices temporarily because of the strong demand resulting from the month-long stoppage...
...other hand, some people will not attend a meeting unless they can listen to a speaker. Berrien feels this often becomes a fourth classroom lecture, which is exactly what he tries to avoid. He supposes that some students are "organically spectators," but he is still anxious to strike a successful balance between speakers and student discussion groups, and he would like to introduce more round tables and debates...
...Some Bad Times." Until ten years ago, said Clarence Wimpfheimer, president of Stonington, Connecticut's American Velvet Co., there were frequent labor disputes and "I had some bad times with the boys." After a 16-month strike, Wimpfheimer adopted a profit-sharing plan for his 350 employees, all members of the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. The company, which has had no work stoppage since then, last year paid $180,000 into profit-shares and pension funds, equal to 22% of each man's wages...
...known where they will strike next? Even now, privacy in the College rooms is an outworn concept. Eventually when you come home, the little men won't leave. They will stay there 4 hours a day, sleep in your beds and use up your toothpaste. Then the revolution will be at hand, and human rights, will disappear in the wake of bloody violence...