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...busmen struck anyway, almost paralyzing Santiago. Meanwhile, the truckers, who had started it all, moved to take advantage of Allende's seemingly weakened resolve. They announced that they were joining with other strikers to present a new set of demands to the government, in effect raising the price that Allende must pay for civil peace...
...gave the workers much more than they had expected. Britain's bobbies have just won a 16.5% wage hike -well above Heath's 10% limit. Now the nation's 230,000 railwaymen are pressing for a 15% to 25% increase, and London's 26,000 busmen are negotiating for a 25% rise in wages...
...anywhere from 40 to 1,000 young toughs and armed with wickedly sharpened cargo hooks, stilettos and stones, terrorized the colony's teeming Chinese districts. They smashed windows, set scores of fires, broke traffic lights and tossed bottles of acid at the hard-pressed police. But the defiant busmen got the worst treatment: the mobs attacked drivers and passengers, burned ten buses in a single day and reduced the island's transportation system to one gigantic traffic snarl...
...Greyhound's new routes. Trautman has been president for only 16 months but has already become embroiled in a battle for a 20% interest in the Railway Express Agency, which would dovetail with Greyhound's growing parcel-carrying business. Bitterly opposed to any butting in by the busmen, truckers and the railroaders have carried the fight to the Supreme Court...
...jobholder out of four in metropolitan Youngstown (pop. 225,000) is a steelworker, and thousands of other breadwinners, notably the railroaders who haul to and from the mills, are directly dependent on steel for their living. Thousands more, from the busmen who drive steelworkers to their jobs to the doctors who treat their illnesses, are indirectly dependent on the now-silent mills. When the mills are strikebound, Youngstown feels a tightening pinch. But this time, after 2½ months of shutdown, Youngstown is enduring its pinch with remarkable serenity, surprisingly little hardship...