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  • Workers at this factory went on strike after the Labour Department had neglected to call a Conciliation

    6.Organize or Starve 1980

  • When differences of any kind arise, whether of great or of minor importance, if the parties themselves arrange an amicable settlement, the process is called Conciliation, defined by the Industrial

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • National Repeal Association was founded, and a permanent place of meeting known as Conciliation Hall established for it in Dublin.

    The Story of Ireland Emily Lawless 1879

  • The universal reasons for equipping women with the vote as with a tool adapted to her present day needs, and the claims made upon her by the modern community, the reasons, in short why women want and are asking for the vote, the universal reasons why men, even good men, cannot be trusted to take care of women's interests, were never better or more tersely summed up than in a story told by Philip Snowden in the debate in the British House of Commons on the Woman Suffrage Bill of 1910, known as the Conciliation Bill.

    The Trade Union Woman Alice Henry 1900

  • "Conciliation," the ratio rises as high as four to one.

    English: Composition and Literature 1899

  • The opportunity thus afforded for the delivery of fierce invectives against the Imperial authorities was utilised to the full, and the fires of disaffection lighted by the "Conciliation" meetings were kindled anew into the second and more disastrous conflagration that culminated in the proceedings of the Worcester Conference

    Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898

  • "Conciliation," with an occasional dose, I should think, of that most necessary of all Saharan equipments, in travelling through The Desert.

    Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828

  • But this loss of seats was counterbalanced by the consideration that it is unusual for the same Government to be entrusted with a second period of office by a democratic electorate.] [Sidenote: The 'Conciliation' movement.]

    Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898

  • Representatives of the league's franchise owners and the players' union met at the downtown D.C. offices of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

    NFL labor negotiations resume 2011

  • The written statement said: George Cohen, the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, has requested, and both sides have agreed, that the NFL Players Association and the NFL refrain from making any public comments about any aspect of the mediation process.

    NFL labor negotiations resume 2011

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