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...strike order, effective immediately, came when the printers rejected, by a vote of 561-511, the publishers' proposal to arbitrate their offer of the same hourly wage increase accepted by ten other newspaper unions. Earlier, an all-day conference in Governor Furcolo's office failed to avert the strike...
True marriage and parenthood, said the committee, are areas in which the Christian is permitted freedom of twofold kind: "This means freedom from sensuality and selfishness which enslave. It also means considerable latitude of choice, when the motives are right, in regard to mutually acceptable and noninjurious means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child...
...scandal over Kenya's Hola camps, where eleven African prisoners had been beaten to death by guards, had come the Devlin report (TIME, Aug. 3) calling the British protectorate of Nyasaland a "police state" and challenging the Colonial Office's need to avert an African "massacre" of white settlers that never took place. There were editorial outcries that Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd should resign; his office had been discredited by the very commission it had appointed, headed by a British high-court justice and including on its staff Lord Montgomery's wartime Chief of Intelligence...
Steel Strike: He planned no new move to avert a strike "other than to continue to urge both sides to continue negotiations." Both sides should "keep before their eyes what the United States needs...
...Government wants to avert the threatened steel strike, it should investigate the possibilities of a revised revenue...