Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Paris. Because of Communist boasts that thousands of workmen would lay down their tools and all the taxicabs of Paris would go on strike for four hours, 20,000 troops and police were ordered on duty, a special police airplane hovered over the city all day. Nothing happened...
...STRIKE UP THE BAND! and SOON (Vic-tor)-George Gershwin's contributions to the season's hits. The first is fine satire on the big-parade spirit; the second is as teasing as tunes are made...
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...