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...Government-owned Small Arms, Ltd. plant near Toronto, a thousand workers staged a sitdown strike against layoffs...
...started when the Reverend Powell brusquely shooed news photographers away, so that a photographer could shoot some pictures for LIFE first. When one of the newsmen squawked, the bridegroom told a cop: "Throw that man out!" Thereupon news photographers did what they often threaten but rarely do, staged a sitdown strike. Terms: either the Reverend Powell apologized, or they would take no pictures...
Everything that medical skill could give them they received. They were first washed in sitdown bathtubs and then, clean and in fresh clothes, they were put to bed in sunlit rooms with flowers. Whole blood was transfused into the emaciated bodies, nourishment was injected intravenously when they could not digest strengthening soups. But more than anything else, the simple fact of humane care and decent surroundings had its effect. In the first two days after the 120th moved in, only two men died...
...tain made one concession, agreeing to end his governmental "sitdown strike" and resume his functions as Chief of State. Even then he insisted that this would be merely nominal. He added...
...last week, India was practically without news. More than 100 of India's newspapers suspended publication in a one-day hartal (Indian sitdown strike). Only nine major papers appeared...