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Such piddling labor disputes badly disrupt Britain's fragile economy and damage its drive to strengthen the pound by raising exports. Last week strikes crippled several key exporters, including a shipbuilder and two automakers, Rootes and Jaguar. Worse still, a squabble over union representation threatened to cripple the country's steel industry. Amid all that acrimony, public debate raged over a new government White Paper on labor policy, fittingly titled "In Place of Strife." Issued by Barbara Castle, the fiery Minister of Employment and Productivity, the paper committed Harold Wilson's Labor Government to press for legislation...
...agree with Master Gill that violent methods of changing or influencing Harvard policy are not beneficial to the University but only disrupt communications. I think there are many students on the HUC, SFAC, and HRPC like myself who have never been in favor of violent methods. Nevertheless, I think we are upset at what may seem to be a dangerous trend concerning the manner in which change comes about at Harvard...
...FRANCISCO--A group of about 1000 minority students, striking teachers, and supporters failed Monday to disrupt the reopening of San Francisco State College. Several hours later however the San Francisco Labor Council sanctioned the teacher strike...
...participant in Thursday's sit-in, said "our intent was not to wreck Harvard or cause another Columbia. We simply made the jump to taking the war personally." He added that the demonstrators "did not want to stop the meeting from taking place, nor did we want to disrupt...
...responded that the administration was to blame for calling off the Faculty meeting since the demonstrators were not preventing anyone from entering the meeting room, that the tactics used were justified because of the immoral nature of ROTC, and that the purpose of the sit-in was not to disrupt the Faculty meeting but to influence the outcome of the meeting...