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Wilson's main worry is that labor may ruin Labor's chances. Fearful that the proposed curtailment of service would put 70,000 of 475,000 workers out of work, the National Union of Railwaymen has called a three-day protest walkout for mid-May. Wilson, who is grimly aware of the damage dealt Labor by a crippling London transport strike before the 1959 election, attempted repeatedly last week to make the railwaymen call off their unpopular walkout, but made little headway. Prayed a Tory Cabinet minister: "Just give us that strike, and watch the votes pour into...
...pressure the city fathers for more money, the teachers' union planned to have 825 members, one from each city school, camp out in tents in City Hall Plaza in early May. Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris, however, declared that he would not permit the camp-out. It would ruin the grass, he said. Besides, he added, Mayor Wagner had proclaimed that particular week City Parks Week...
There have always been well-accepted cannons of what work should not do to a man. It should not ruin his health...
...comb the upper part of the village, enter each house, and demand to know from each kolkhoznik why he is not working down at the silo. The farm workers' rejoinders, he knew, would be the same as always: 'Let the hay rot. let the peas go to ruin...
...inducement to rebellion for the people of depressed Indonesian Borneo. Moreover, Abdul Rahman has ignored every "revolutionary principle" for which Sukarno stands, has in the process created a conservative, prosperous nation, while revolutionary, leftist Indonesia, with its 100 million people, has slid to the edge of economic ruin. Says a diplomat: "To have a little country like this extending its influence in Southeast Asia was just too much for Sukarno...