Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of New York's 25,000 longshoremen swarmed back to the piers last week, signaling an end to the walkout that had tied up the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Virginia for ten days, a hiring official summed up their delight that it was all over: "They were hysterical...
...strike last Tuesday actually was a resumption of a nine-day walkout in November. That was interrupted under the Taft-Hartley law provision for an 80-day cooling off period...
...YORK, Feb. 17--The striking International Longshoremen's Association tonight reached a "meeting of minds" with shippers. The announcement signaled the end of a five-day walkout of 45,000 dockworkers from Maine to Virginia...
Reason for the drastic action (as a Justice Department representative explained it to the court in asking for the writ): at a time when the nation and the free world face "the threat of Communist aggression," a continuation of the walkout would do the U.S. "irreparable injury...
...rate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt. Out of 600,000 metal and auto workers in the notorious "Red Belt" around Paris, only 3,000 obeyed the C.G.T. summons, and even they returned to work after...