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Show The Word "Strlko." Th earlleBt u&e of tho word "Btrike" in the eonse of stopping work occurs In the London Chronlclo or Soptembor, 1765, in connection with a coal strike. This publication reports a great suspension of labor m tho Northumberland coalfields, and tne colliers are stated to bave "struck out" for a higher bounty before entering enter-ing Into their usual yearly "bond. The time-honored Illustration of profitless profit-less labor, "carrying coals to Newcastle," New-castle," appears to have received its first slap In the face during this strike. The Chronlclo reports that "several pokes of coal were brought from Durham to Newcaatlo by one of the common carriers, and sold on tho sandhill for 9d a p"oke, by which ho cleared 6d a poko," |