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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 ...19 KB (2,876 words) - 20:58, 26 February 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,867 words) - 02:51, 27 February 2023
- Later, as general secretary and perennial presidential candidate of ... a leader of the 1937 “Little Steel” strike. Victory in that strike, ...12 KB (1,836 words) - 08:26, 7 December 2021
- Initially, a special plating deposit called a "strike" may ... poor adhesion to the substrate, a strike can be first deposited that ...13 KB (1,984 words) - 17:16, 29 December 2021
- client. Drafted during the anthracite coal strike, Lee’s “Declaration” ... worked as a PR representative on behalf of General Mills and Lucky Strike, ...11 KB (1,658 words) - 01:07, 8 February 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 18:32, 22 December 2022
- 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 ...18 KB (2,751 words) - 18:37, 25 November 2023
- her to represent them at Histadrut, the General Federation of Labor. ... She also spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in 1956 on behalf ...15 KB (2,415 words) - 06:44, 1 January 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,755 words) - 15:20, 14 May 2023
- 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 ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- 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 ...13 KB (2,087 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- in particular, and dissident movements in general in the 1970s and 1980s, ... for suppressing dissent, and that a general strike would be declared if ...34 KB (5,074 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- became involved in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, which had ... In March 1914, he became General Secretary of Jim Larkin's Irish ...10 KB (1,633 words) - 17:35, 25 January 2023
- the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike in 2006.]] ... where 60,000 workers attempted a general strike. In 1834, a significant ...25 KB (3,721 words) - 04:31, 6 October 2022
- General Aung San (Bogyoke Aung San) ( MY=Image:BogyokeAungSan.png ... was a Burmese revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. Aung San ...17 KB (2,666 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- quot; (which translates as "to beat, strike" in the musical sense ... on their acceptance or consideration by a general audience. For example, ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 00:31, 24 November 2022
- martial law came into effect in 1983 under General Jaruzelski. After a one ... and is composed of Delegates from Regional General Congresses. ...12 KB (1,747 words) - 00:48, 4 February 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 00:36, 10 February 2023
- that "the ultimate aim of the General Strike as regards wages is to ... workers' syndicates. Through a general strike, workers would take control ...27 KB (3,759 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- “The Russian term for strike, stachka, was derived from an old colloquial ... Soviet was formed and called for a general strike in October, refusal to ...25 KB (3,757 words) - 18:34, 25 April 2022
- rise to prominence began during the 1970 strike. However, it was after losing ... He was a member of the illegal strike committee in Gdańsk Shipyard ...29 KB (4,198 words) - 18:50, 25 October 2022
- In the 1906 general election he contested Kidderminster but lost amidst ... Exchequer. This period included the General Strike of 1926, a crisis which ...18 KB (2,603 words) - 18:42, 14 October 2022
- ===Winnipeg general strike=== what came to be known as the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. The government ...32 KB (4,701 words) - 23:10, 17 May 2023
- blow, he or she may deliver a quick strike to distract the attacker ... and grabs such as shomenuchi (a vertical strike to the head), yokomenuchi ...23 KB (3,645 words) - 06:57, 16 June 2023
- companies in what would become the General Strike. When the strike started ... MP), and easily held the seat at the 1929 General Election. In Parliament ...28 KB (4,168 words) - 18:03, 27 July 2023
- 12 he became a clerk in his uncle's general store, which failed in 1837 ... with Grant, Dana urged Stanton to place General Grant in supreme command ...10 KB (1,500 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- and started off by organizing a general strike. As a result, four of ... Luxemburg wanted to organize a general strike to rouse the workers ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- was a long-time president and chairman of General Motors. ... which eventually became part of General Motors Corporation. ...14 KB (2,147 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- Adorno, many years his junior, with whom he would strike a lasting friendship and a fruitful collaborative relationship. In 1925 he was habilitated ...10 KB (1,416 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- throws three strikes to the batter. A strike is given when there is a ... There are three general forms of softball: slow pitch, modified pitch ...50 KB (8,173 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- noted in particular for his silent films Strike and Oktober, and most especially ... films, Eisenstein took on the making of Strike, the fifth film in the series ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- in any detail, Wobblies envisioned the general strike as the means by which ... a role in the 1934 San Francisco general strike and the other organizing ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- of Tiananmen and held a demonstration. The general consensus was that the Chinese ... The next day, students in Beijing went on strike, and student groups ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- Depending upon the taxonomic scheme, Crotalinae includes from 18 general ... of sight and smell, these snakes can strike accurately at moving objects ...19 KB (2,781 words) - 19:53, 7 May 2020
- yet more ships from the force that would strike at Midway. However, whereas ... was the target of the impending Japanese strike and to provide Nimitz with ...42 KB (6,566 words) - 10:16, 22 September 2023
- launchers, an increase in Soviet first strike capacity of 70 percent. ... to the threat. An immediate bombing strike was dismissed early on, as ...24 KB (3,635 words) - 06:42, 11 January 2024
- Goldman and Berkman were consumed by the Homestead strike, where the ... Spanish Republic in its struggle against General Francisco Franco's ...22 KB (3,464 words) - 20:53, 31 December 2020
- organ for the storage of bile. In general, omnivores that eat animal ... Intrahepatic cholestasis can be due to general and bacterial infections ...11 KB (1,595 words) - 14:53, 27 June 2021
- of his love for his daughters and for children in general. ... ===Animators' strike and WWII=== Pinocchio and Fantasia followed ...23 KB (3,587 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- sympathized with the Hamburg dockers' strike of 1896, the Prussian government ... of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, which in general, refers to two types of ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- General Motors Corporation, also known as GM, an American multinational ... Founded in 1908, in Flint, Michigan, General Motors employs approximately ...40 KB (5,886 words) - 06:44, 18 April 2024
- Hindi Sahitya Sammelan including its General Secretary Professor Bhim ... While in jail, Bhagat Singh and other prisoners launched a hunger ...28 KB (4,246 words) - 03:31, 1 October 2023
- produced, it generates waves in the air, which strike the eardrum, and suggested a way to determine pitch. He also wrote on astronomy and geography. ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 04:13, 17 June 2023
- [[Image:Battle strike 1934.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Teamsters, armed ... *Simpson, Fraser. Blackstones Police Manual, Volume 4: General Police ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 19:19, 11 August 2022
- their arcs. The method used to initially strike the arc varies: mercury vapor ... HID lamps are also being used on many general aviation aircraft for ...36 KB (5,574 words) - 23:52, 12 February 2022
- stance, thus makes a preemptive strike against all illusory assumptions: Anything that is known about things is only what is known through the ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 00:54, 2 May 2023
- third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member of the Japanese ... As War Minister, Yamagata pushed through the foundation of the General ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- was later Chancellor, for taking part in a strike. Moving to Kenya, he became ... expelled for participating in a student strike (Obote claimed he left Makerere ...20 KB (3,066 words) - 11:05, 10 March 2023
- union, Vikzhel, threatened a national strike unless the Bolsheviks shared ... helped Stalin retain his position as General Secretary of the Central ...22 KB (3,260 words) - 22:04, 25 October 2022
- years the first widely-used and successful general-purpose machine gun, the ... the M16 and Soviet AK-47. Infantry adopted general-purpose machine guns like ...29 KB (4,662 words) - 04:50, 5 November 2022
- at Law: Commentary on the North Carolina General Statutes of Interest to ... vandalism, and other similar crimes. In general, misdemeanors are crimes ...15 KB (2,199 words) - 16:11, 5 April 2017
- scandal," were in some sense a "strike" or at least a rebellion ... culminating in the infamous 1994 baseball strike that led to the cancellation ...67 KB (11,273 words) - 11:05, 20 September 2023
- workers and provoked numerous strikes. The strike at Watertown Arsenal led ... the myth that "there has never been a strike of men working under scientific ...19 KB (2,818 words) - 10:33, 11 April 2024
- The Labour party lost the general election in 1970, but Callaghan ... he returned to England to stand in the general election. ...29 KB (4,489 words) - 01:32, 8 February 2023
- was the new administration's Attorney General and acting Secretary of ... to have been created in Marbury but the general idea has ancient roots. ...23 KB (3,669 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- him with a heavy stick, but Diogenes said, "Strike, for you will not find any stick hard enough to drive me away as long as you continue to speak ...13 KB (2,126 words) - 15:25, 29 January 2024
- disobedience around the world. The most general principle on which civil ... Advocates of civil disobedience must strike a balance between obeying ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- his father Bill Sr., who was president and general manager of the Chicago Cubs ... *"Son, when you pitch a strike, Mr. Hornsby will let you know." ...9 KB (1,520 words) - 02:42, 16 December 2022
- In the 1895 General Election the Independent Labour Party put up 28 ... moderate force in politics. During the General Strike of 1926 he opposed strike ...55 KB (7,952 words) - 19:37, 16 July 2023
- part in a "Cessation of Labor" (strike). At that time, withdrawal ... of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark. "Maybe ...35 KB (5,539 words) - 20:11, 26 July 2023
- of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General (1926), as the "full ... Meyerhold’s stylized acting methods. In Strike!, which portrays the beginnings ...10 KB (1,356 words) - 21:51, 3 May 2023
- the increase. Industrial workers went on strike and effectively paralyzed ... :October - general strike, St. Petersburg Soviet formed ...26 KB (3,801 words) - 18:19, 22 December 2022
- When the Conservatives won the 1970 general election, Thatcher became ... not bring the agreement down by a general strike. This was evidence of ...38 KB (5,841 words) - 04:09, 6 November 2022
- General Electric later bought Germer's patent and under the direction ... from a DC supply of sufficient voltage to strike an arc. In this case, there ...43 KB (6,681 words) - 17:46, 28 March 2024
- onto the surface of a neutron star would strike the star at 150,000km/s, ... *** Single pulsars – general term for neutron stars that emit directed ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2022
- American labor unions prepared for a general strike in support of the eight ... the city. By the time of the 1886 general strike, strikebreakers entering ...46 KB (6,999 words) - 15:07, 25 January 2023
- in other industries, culminating in a general strike at Rostov-on-Don in November ... struggles culminated in a citywide general strike, and Tiflis, where commercial ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- Andrew Scott Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal ... region, and the Himalaya mountains in general, are thought to be experiencing ...31 KB (4,841 words) - 17:06, 10 November 2022
- to Ghana in 1947, where he was appointed General-Secretary of The United ... When he returned to Ghana, he became General Secretary of the United ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- policies. His intervention in the Pullman Strike of 1894 in order to keep ... settlers in that region. In 1886 Brigadier General Nelson A. Miles captured ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 08:11, 25 February 2023
- In October 1971 he joined four Westminster MPs in a 48-hour hunger ... of Sinn Féin) or the 2005 United Kingdom general election, which Mark Durkan ...10 KB (1,561 words) - 06:00, 3 August 2022
- 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American ... He was the cousin of future Confederate general G.W. Smith and the nephew ...20 KB (3,137 words) - 05:57, 3 August 2022
- was elected as the Chinese Communist Party General Secretary in 1943, and in ... of the Chinese Communist Party, and became general secretary of the All-China ...14 KB (2,053 words) - 20:53, 3 November 2022
- quot; (shǒu 手). This can mean, "to strike, hit, beat, or fight." ... (see Gulou and Zhonglou). Three kingdoms general Zhang Fei used a ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 07:42, 6 March 2023
- Taft was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso ... had served as his father's solicitor general. Taft himself appeared taciturn ...14 KB (2,139 words) - 02:17, 16 December 2022
- In 1955, due to pressure from civil leaders, the general opposition ... planned uprisings in the cities and a general strike, coordinated by the llano ...14 KB (2,102 words) - 19:27, 5 June 2020
- General Aung San, the country's founding father, broke with his ... That summer on July 23, General Ne Win announced that he was resigning ...32 KB (4,792 words) - 17:51, 22 August 2023
- and deflect the electrons. When electrons strike the fluorescent screen, light ... off the axis of the tube so that the ions strike the side of the CRT instead ...37 KB (6,021 words) - 16:18, 3 December 2023
- Although he remains obscure to general readers, his importance ... Wolsey due to the work's nature as a general satire of the clergy. The ...13 KB (2,070 words) - 07:50, 3 August 2022
- members placed under house arrest, such as General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The ... scale protests in Shanghai with a general strike. There were also protests ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- 2005, when he was defeated in the British general election and resigned the ... controlled Ulster Workers' Strike, during which loyalist paramilitaries ...17 KB (2,585 words) - 08:32, 28 January 2024
- While the fierce-looking moray eels can strike fear in the hearts ... first discovery of cooperation between fish in general. ...12 KB (1,839 words) - 21:21, 9 November 2022
- Poland, Frank was released by the Russian general Bibikov, who had occupied ... Tschenstochau, and incorporated into the General Government. The Nazis marched ...13 KB (1,981 words) - 07:32, 12 January 2024
- promoted to the rank of brigadier general as the Civil War was drawing ... * Great Railroad Strike (1877) ===Administration and Cabinet=== ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 18:25, 22 December 2022
- It stopped on April 30, 1997, the day before the general election ... on the radio or television, hear the bell strike 13 times on New Year's ...22 KB (3,639 words) - 22:14, 23 November 2023
- sees law as an "expression of the general will," intended to ... freedom of association, or the right to strike. However, these principles ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
- in doubt. She was sentenced to death, but General Maxwell commuted this to ... as the government in London granted a general amnesty for those who had ...18 KB (2,792 words) - 17:49, 16 May 2020
- position with the Detroit Tigers; and general manager Lee MacPhail, who ... five times. He also employed 11 different general managers over the next 30 ...36 KB (5,317 words) - 08:15, 23 January 2023
- after graduation covering a major strike by wharf workers, to defeat ... as editor of the Post. During a press room strike of 1974, after union workers ...20 KB (3,045 words) - 17:10, 5 October 2022
- in the state of New York. Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's 8,000 ... impregnable, and a vital point of defense. General St. Clair and his superior ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 21:10, 28 March 2024
- He became the Deputy Attorney General of New York in 1914. In 1916 ... comics on the radio during a newspaper strike, and pushing to have a commercial ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- a clock completely determine that it will strike 2:00 an hour after it strikes ... human faculty of science or mathematics in general. If we are to believe that ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- Argentine military government, headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri, thought ... and ensuring its victory in the 1983 general election, which, prior to ...43 KB (6,819 words) - 00:33, 25 March 2024
- Students would sometimes "strike" by leaving a city and ... to the masses not only in Europe. In a general sense, the basic structure ...28 KB (4,044 words) - 12:01, 3 May 2023
- for (in his own words) 'idleness and general worthlessness', and ... He had already written a play, The Strike at Arlingford (1893), which ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- of a person vary from state to state, the general rule makes an important ... excessive force was actually used. The general common law principle is ...26 KB (4,174 words) - 17:48, 25 January 2023
- aircraft, spacecraft, and vehicles in general), to assist in stability ... *F-15E Strike Eagle == Notes == ==References== *LeFèvre, Hervé C ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 08:50, 29 July 2023
- war against Japan led in 1905 to a general strike in Finland and revolutionary ... had failed, the socialists initiated a general strike on November 14–19, ...60 KB (8,826 words) - 19:50, 26 March 2024
- In May 1922, Stalin became the General Secretary of the Communist ... to Stalin's being re-elected as the General Secretary instead of Sergey ...19 KB (2,687 words) - 06:04, 6 March 2023
