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Example sentences for "general strike"

  • A general strike in all industries must be the answer of the workers to the challenge of the masters!

  • Proposal for a general strike 174 Effect of the Moyer-Haywood case on the I.

  • At Alcoy ten thousand workingmen declared a general strike, and, when the municipal authorities opposed them, they took the town by storm.

  • There was a two-thirds majority of the Federated Trades for a general strike, which was proclaimed on the 13th.

  • The Trades Federation threatened a general strike of all trades and ordered a ballot to be taken.

  • The Commission Won--In a General Strike 222 XXIV.

  • A General Strike--A Locomotive Engineer for a Day 137 XVII.

  • There were others who were impatient, looking for a short cut, a general strike or a mass insurrection of the workers which would put an end to the slavery of capitalism.

  • Also, they must appeal to all the labor unions, and see if it was possible to work up sentiment for a general strike.

  • Could Peter suggest to McGivney the name of a German Socialist who might be persuaded to approach this agent of the Kaiser, and get him to contribute money for the purpose of having a general strike called in American City?

  • Moreover it was proven that Apfel had taken this money and distributed it among several German Reds, who had turned it in to the defense fund, or used it in paying for circulars calling for a general strike.

  • The old idea of a "holy month," a general strike, broached in 1839 by the Chartists, was revived.

  • So, too, in 1818, the association of Scottish miners was powerful enough to carry on a general strike.

  • It declares that this first victory of the party has been won under pressure of a general strike.

  • When a number of concerns are involved in it, it's sometimes called 'a general strike.

  • This paper says a general strike is threatened.

  • New demands were made upon the employer with a full knowledge that they would not be acceded to, for the purpose of precipitating a general strike, and it came.

  • The result of all which was that one May morning every shop, mill, and factory in Stillwater was served with a notice from the trades-union, and a general strike threatened.

  • There was a general strike in the village.

  • There's a general strike threatened in the village; foundry-men, spinners, and all.

  • The syndicalists threaten in case of war to declare a general strike.

  • Only the Guesdists were against the general strike and at their Congress in Lille (1890) declared it impossible.

  • Debs appeared and urged a general strike by all labor organizations.

  • But Jay Gould would not risk a general strike on his lines at this time.

  • In such a case he and others advocate a general strike, though he said he fully realized it would be a bloody one.

  • Footnote: Attempts at carrying out a General Strike, in France, Sweden, Italy, and Spain have failed.

  • Its central feature is the idea of a General Strike.

  • Bebel introduced a resolution in favor of the declaration of a general strike in the event of war being declared on Russia.

  • By the 6th the strike had assumed the dimensions of a general strike.

  • A general strike is a cruel and immoral thing, and the brain of man should be capable of running industry in a more rational way.

  • A general strike, it said, had been called all over the United States; and most foreboding anxieties were expressed concerning the provisioning of the great cities.

  • It's just what it claims to be, a general strike, and it's your turn to play, gentlemen.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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