General-strike Sentence Examples

In August there were strikes among the dock laborers of Genoa and the iron workers of Florence; the latter agitation developed into a general strike in that city, which aroused widespread indignation among the orderly part of the population and ended without any definite result.

The Monza labor exchange then took the initiative of proclaiming a general strike throughout Italy (September 15th) as a protest against the government for daring to maintain order.

In October 1907 there was again a general strike at Milan, which was rendered more serious on account of the action of the railway servants, and extended to other cities; traffic was disorganized over a large part of northern Italy, until the government, being now owner of the railways, dismissed the ringleaders from the service.

With great reluctance the tsar consented to convoke a consultative chamber of deputies as a sop to public opinion, but that concession stimulated rather than calmed public opinion, and shortly after the conclusion of peace the Liberals and the Revolutionaries, combining their forces, brought about a general strike in St Petersburg together with the stoppage of railway communication all over the empire.

But a year later he acquiesced in the establishment of a Labour council of action, and in the threat of a general strike in case of any military or naval intervention against the Soviet Government of Russia.

After the war its activity was shown by an increasing number of assassinations, burnings and other outrages, until by 1875 it completely dominated the mining classes and forced a general strike in the coal regions.

After the suppression of the Kapp troubles and the return of the Ministry to Berlin it was impossible for Noske to remain in office, as the labour masses, who by the general strike against the Kapp " Government " had for the moment obtained a decisive influence upon affairs, regarded him as having been too tolerant of reaction in the army and as having manifested excessive ruthlessness in the suppression of the Communist bands.

A general strike at the universities was averted by a compromise, by which Wahrmund was transferred from the pious land of Tirol to Prague, which was more than he had desired.

In 1903 the government took strong measures to prevent a threatened general strike of railway employees, the military were called out, and occupied the stations.

Thereupon the council of the Labour party proclaimed a general strike.

Between Kala Wamar (6580 ft.) and Kala Khum (4400 ft.), where the Oxus again bends southwards, its course to the north-west is almost at right angles to the general strike of the Darwaz mountains, which is from north-east to south-west, following the usual conformation of all this part of high Asia.

Routes which converge on Kalat from the south pass for the most part through narrow wooded valleys, enclosed between steep ridges of denuded hills, and, following the general strike of these ridges, they run from valley to valley with easy grades.

The reason assigned for these extraordinary diversions of the drainage right across the general strike of the ridges is that it is antecedent - i.e.

The structure of the Harz is very complicated, but the general strike of the folds, especially in the Oberharz plateau, is N.E.

Her central argument being that a general strike is not a sterile demand, artificially created in the minds of timid trade union bureaucrats.

One attempt at calling a general strike was effectively suppressed by members of the SAW and ANC who had escaped the police dragnet.

A coal miner's strike begins in Britain and is followed by a general strike and martial law.

The powerful Bombay proletariat, concentrated in the textile mills, staged a general strike.

Again, the general strike -- and they call for a one-day general strike!

A nationwide general strike which paralyzed the entire country was accompanied by an armed Rebellion.

An important point is that the general strike necessarily is an empty signifier.

However events, not least the General Strike and its associated prolonged coal strike and the receivership of both colliery companies, intervened.

Typhoon damage Enlarge Image The general strike was in 1926.