Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt's zero-hour efforts to avert a walkout of 53,000 captive coal miners on Monday appeared to have failed tonight as conferences between steel executives and mine leaders collapsed with no settlement of their union shop controversy...
Stated reason for the walkout: to protest against the way Britain and the British-run Indian Government were handling the defense of India in World War II. But the gesture meant more than just that...
WASHINGTON--Fifty-three thousand miners employed in steel industry captive coal mines technically were on strike tonight while defense experts studied the effect of a prolonged walkout on the multi-billion dollar armaments program...
...contract, he charges, because Hillman has virtually granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor Departments for advice. When Feudist Palmer takes the stand later this week, it will probably be Carmody's turn to blush. One man who will neither take the stand nor blush: F.D.R., whose failure to delegate complete responsibility to any one man is responsible for this and many...
Three Detroit automotive plants employing 30,000 men were shut down Tuesday night by departmental strikes of CIO automobile workers and another CIO walkout crippled production of essential aircraft equipment at the Bendix, N.J., plant of Air Associates...