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  • when government abuses its power, a general strike is an effective, non ... the Miners Hall during the 1926 General Strike.jpg|thumb|250 px|left ...
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  • Act also gave the United States Attorney General the power to obtain an 80 ... affect commerce and are inimical to the general welfare, and to protect ...
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  • Later, as general secretary and perennial presidential candidate of ... a leader of the 1937 “Little Steel” strike. Victory in that strike, ...
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  • Initially, a special plating deposit called a "strike" may ... poor adhesion to the substrate, a strike can be first deposited that ...
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  • client. Drafted during the anthracite coal strike, Lee’s “Declaration” ... worked as a PR representative on behalf of General Mills and Lucky Strike, ...
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  • These terms were used in connection with a strike against a Chicago clothing ... impact on Haywood was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads ...
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  • attention for settling the Boston police strike in 1919. He became vice president ... Many later criticized Coolidge as part of a general criticism of laissez ...
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  • her to represent them at Histadrut, the General Federation of Labor. ... She also spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956 on behalf ...
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  • response, the masters and students went on strike and withdrew to other cities ... gave in, but then threatened a hunger strike if he did not get his crusader’s ...
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  • suggested the idea to commemorate the strike of garment workers in the ... Day on the last Sunday in February 1913 to strike for "bread and peace ...
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  • and came together in a charge, followed by general combat. Jousting, on the ... normally of solid oak and a significant strike was needed to shatter them ...
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  • in particular, and dissident movements in general in the 1970s and 1980s, ... for suppressing dissent, and that a general strike would be declared if ...
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  • became involved in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, which had ... In March 1914, he became General Secretary of Jim Larkin's Irish ...
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  • the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike in 2006.]] ... where 60,000 workers attempted a general strike. In 1834, a significant ...
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  • General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San) ( MY=Image:BogyokeAungSan.png ... was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. Aung San ...
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  • quot; (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical sense ... on their acceptance or consideration by a general audience. For example, ...
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  • martial law came into effect in 1983 under General Jaruzelski. After a one ... and is composed of Delegates from Regional General Congresses. ...
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  • a Scottish broadcasting executive. As the general manager of the BBC, he established ... In 1926 a general strike broke out across Britain. When the value ...
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  • that "the ultimate aim of the General Strike as regards wages is to ... workers' syndicates. Through a general strike, workers would take control ...
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  • and Mary Duke, the daughter of the solicitor-general of Barbados. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. At Oxford he was a private ...
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