Sentence examples for labor demonstration from inspiring English sources

Invited but unable to attend was John J. Sweeney, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., who was busy staging a labor demonstration against the administration's trade policy.

After that Mr. Burns hopes to make, with Mr. Simon, a period mini-series about the Haymarket bombing in Chicago in 1886, when the police, trying to break up a labor demonstration, were struck by a bomb that killed seven officers and sent four wrongfully convicted defendants to the gallows.

On April 29, a major labor demonstration in Warsaw ended in violence perpetrated by both sides.

The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

A18 Labor Demonstrations Planned With the nation's labor unions divided and shrinking, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. has organized 100 demonstrations nationwide to assert that the right of American workers to form unions is being systematically violated.

He said large labor demonstrations are often warranted in Canada and European countries to pressure parliamentary leaders.

Walmart was confronting reports of bribery in Mexico, a wave of labor demonstrations in the United States and, perhaps most critically, questions about a grisly fire that had killed 112 workers at a Bangladeshi garment factory used by several Walmart suppliers.

To step up pressure on management and to mobilize the troops, the union representing 26,000 apartment building workers has scheduled a large rally and march for this afternoon on a street that rarely sees labor demonstrations: Park Avenue.

Hatfield's assassination triggered one of the biggest labor demonstrations in American history.

He witnessed labor demonstrations and the miserable effects of unemployment, and was shocked by the news of a military coup d'état in Buenos Aires (see Infamous Decade).

Over the last two decades, the LAPD has transformed itself into a more sophisticated force, with a unit skilled at handling labor demonstrations.