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...Vega, boss of all Spanish police: "The sooner the better." Last week the trouble came, and Dictator Franco and his police were ready for it. In the ever-restless industrial center of Bilbao, scene of labor disturbances 16 months ago, 2,800 Basque workers at Spain's major shipyard began a sitdown strike for more pay. On orders from Madrid, the shipyard raised the price of meals in the company lunchroom to make their stayin more costly. Then Franco's civil guards marched into the shipyard and put out the strikers. Because they had broken their work contract...
Khruschev's announcements have been received by unanimous resolutions of approval from factory and shipyard workers. The press has also begun to educate the people on the necessity of the move. The First Secretary said to the workers when he announced his plan, "The capitalist worker will never believe that you are doing this of your own free will....They do not understand the soul of the Soviet People...
Cash First. Unchecked, the spreading strikes would be one more deadly blow to Britain's determination to keep its place in the world. (Nearly half of the exports on which Britain lives are made by members of the engineering unions.) Both shipyard and engineering employers adamantly refused to offer any wage increase at all. British wages, they declared, had risen twice as much as the cost of living in 1956, were now so high that they threatened to price British exports out of world markets. Just as intransigent, the unions flatly refused to submit their case to arbitration. Said...
...national railways bought off the threatening railway workers with a 5% increase, though the cost of living has gone up only 3% since their 7% wage increase last year. A few minutes later came the announcement that able, fast-rising Minister of Labor Iain Macleod, 43, had persuaded the shipyard employers and union leaders to agree to face-to-face negotiation of their differences...
...Return. At week's end prospects were good that both the shipyard and engineering strikes would soon be ended. (Since both groups belong to the same confederation, the engineers would probably follow the shipbuilders' lead.) There was, however, little likelihood that any of the strikers would now be content with anything less than the 5% increase granted the railwaymen, or that they in return would have to abandon the restrictive practices (featherbedding, rigid jurisdictional rules, etc.) which keep their productivity from going up as fast as their pay. Warned the London Economist: "The threat to the national economy...