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...industries, steel, autos, rubber, etc. As chief of the nation's largest industrial union, the United Mine Workers, John L. was confident that he could organize the mass-production industries-and he made a spectacularly successful start. The C.I.O. spread strife and union buttons across the land with sit-down strikes and picket-line battles, and Republic Steel's Tom Girdler became a hero to some businessmen when he snapped: "I won't sign a contract with an irresponsible, racketeering, violent, communistic organization like the C.I.O...
Treating of life in a Midwest pajama factory, the show makes a sit-down strike over wages seem the next thing to a strawberry festival, while the head of the business and the head of the union are not so much contrasted bosses as brother oafs. Since in musicomedy the course of true love never can run smooth, in this one, Management (John Raitt) Meets Labor (Janis Paige), Management Fires Labor, then, with a little more dexterous management, rehires and weds her. En route there are small blobs and faint glimmers of satire, the usual doings at shop and picnic...
...Long Live the Revolution!" Worried, Naguib increased his bodyguard. The tide had set against him. Officers began a sit-down strike in barracks; police held a meeting and vowed they would not police Naguib's election; fleet units hoisted anchor and sailed from Alexandria, announcing that they would not return unless the R.C.C. agreed to stay in power. Mobs roamed the streets calling: "Long live the revolution!" The man they shouted for: Colonel Abdel Nasser...
William Clark, the State Department's sit-down judge (TIME, Dec. 14) and Chief Justice of U.S. courts in West Germany, was struck a mortal diplomatic blow, sure to budge him from the bench. Vacationing in the Canary Islands, Clark, who had vowed he would sit tight even though his commission expires this month, was suddenly telephoned by Robert D. Hale, U.S. Consul General in Madrid. The threat, on Washington's orders: Clark had to hand in his diplomatic passport or face arrest for his obstinacy. He capitulated, gave Hale the credentials, got in return a new passport...
...renewed, because the "probable decline in business" before his court had made him "surplus." The judge was outraged: the State Department, he said, "doesn't have the guts to come out and say it's merely trying to get rid of me." He announced a sit-down strike. He would, he said, stay in Germany and go right on being chief justice even after January when his commission expires. Last week State sent Clark a "reminder" that he had been ordered to report back to Washington, but the judge was adamant. "I'm still here," he said...