Word: striker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swung at him with his fist. For all his 70 years Messenger Parker dodged nimbly, doubled up his fists, prepared for battle. A policeman arrested the striker...
There have been several strikers arrested in the last few days and friends of the strikers charge that the police have been arresting strikers instead of seabs who were the guilty parties. A. S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, has provided bail for several of these strikers. There have been conflicting stories about the arrests. It was learned from the Liberal Club that the strike breakers have been stabbing the strikers and that in one case a striker was almost mortally wounded...
...women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head of a cheerful crowd of factory girls she marched round & round the D & D plant, out of which the girls had walked several weeks ago because of low wages (3? an hour for cutters) and "immoral conditions." At a meeting from which men were barred, Mrs. Pinchot...
...Roosevelt man, Unionist Simpson declared: "Low farm prices are the cause of every business failure. But now the rising sun of a new day is here for Agriculture and a Democratic Congress will soon enact legislation to aid the farmer. The farmer won a wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just...
After seven days Walter Young, construction engineer of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation, notified the contractors to resume work, cleared the reservation of all who did not have passes signed by him. Company officials said no striker would be reemployed, said nothing about restoring old wages to workers on the dam named for the foremost U. S. wage-maintainer...