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  • 511929 Timber Workers strike — The 1929 Timber Workers strike was a labour dispute in Australia caused by Judge Lukin of the Arbitration Court handing down an industrial award decision on December 23, 1928 to reduce the wages and increase the hours for 20,000 timber workers… …

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  • 52Sex strike — A sex strike is a strike, a method of non violent resistance in which one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals. It s a form of temporary sexual abstinence.In October 1997 the chief of the Military of …

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  • 53Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon — is a 2006 book by John Wills. Widespread public opposition accompanied the rise of the U.S. nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s. In Conservation Fallout, Wills examines one of the most controversial nuclear projects of the period: Pacific …

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  • 54Milk strike — The milk strike (Norwegian: melkestreiken) was a strike in Nazi occupied Oslo on 8 and 9 September 1941. It led to strong reprisals from the German occupiers, in the form of martial law, court martial, mass arrests, two executions and several… …

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  • 55Oil Field Workers' Strike —    (1938)    Sparked by a dispute over holidays between Burmese oil field workers at wells at Chauk and Yenaungyaung (Yaynangyoung) and the British owned Burmah Oil Company, the strike, which began in January 1938, was organized by local branches …

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  • 56Newfoundland general election, 1959 — The 33rd Newfoundland general election was held on 20 August 1959 to elect members of the 32nd General Assembly of Newfoundland, the fourth general election for the province of Newfoundland, Canada. It was won by the Liberal party. Results   …

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  • 57Jurisdictional strike — is a concept in United States labor law that refers to a concerted refusal to work undertaken by a union to assert its members’ right to particular job assignments and to protest the assignment of disputed work to members of another union or to… …

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  • 58ARGENTINA — ARGENTINA, South American Federal Republic, general population (2004) 39,150,000; Jewish population 190,000. This entry is arranged according to the following outline: colonial period modern period legal basis for jewish life history EARLY JEWISH …

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  • 59hot-tem|pered — «HOT TEHM puhrd», adjective. having a quick temper; easily angered: »Hot tempered students and war veterans ordered a general protest strike (Time) …

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  • 60Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …

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