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...entire year, Ron Hewitt had worked in a silent world. From the moment he stepped into the cabin of his crane, no one talked to him; all around, the 300 men he worked with in the foundry of the Staveley Iron and Chemical Co. chatted and joshed with each other, but to Hewitt they spoke not a word, not even hello. It was almost as though his working day were spent in solitary confinement...
...above the foundry floor, to guide his big, metal-toting crane. His co-workers rapped their hammers on stanchions to gain his attention, then motioned what they wanted him to do. The incoming relief operator scrawled necessary messages on the crane walls. At teatime, while the others horsed around, Hewitt sat alone in his crane...
...Double Six. Hewitt's crime, in the eyes of his fellow workers, was his failure last December to join the one-day walkout of the Amalgamated Engineering Union at the Staveley works in Derbyshire. He had not joined the strike because his own union, the General and Municipal Workers, said not to. Despite the explanation, Ed Boyce, the A.E.U. shop steward, ruled: "The men in this shop .are not going to speak to you for six months." Hewitt might have moved on to some other shop, because he was still in good standing with his own union...
When the first six months of silence was up, Boyce was still unrelenting. "We must have solidarity," he said, and decreed another six months. If any of the foundrymen felt sorry for Hewitt, they were even more concerned not to defy Boyce. Shop Steward Boyce-who made a trip to Moscow last year, but denies that he is a Communist-runs his little bailiwick ruthlessly. Hewitt's own union said: "Officially we don't know the situation exists." His employers echoed: "It's a matter for the men." Said Boyce flatly: "It's none...
...Dorothy's father, Noel Frederick Holtz, is accountant general of the Jamaican government. The Jamaican House of Representatives called upon its government to protest to Ottawa. Dorothy received a stream of sympathetic messages from Canadians, and the British Columbia Teachers' Federation said it would help find John Hewitt a job in Canada...