Word: strike
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contraction of mobile strike...
...strike continues for as long as a month, its impact is expected to grow severe, especially north of the border. The seaway is the vital artery for Canadian grain exports, for shipment of Nova Scotia coal to Ontario electric plants, for the flow of iron ore to U.S. mills from Labrador and Quebec. Employers and union officials predict that a prolonged tie-up would idle at least 5,000 seamen, plus another 10,000 dockworkers at Great Lakes ports...
Cutting the Heart. Port authorities are even more concerned that the dispute will cause a permanent loss of seaway traffic. "The strike has cut the heart out of the seaway season," says Captain John J. Manley, Chicago port director, who estimates that 750,000 tons of cargo will be diverted to East Coast ports by this week. Such losses could saddle U.S. and Canadian taxpayers with extra burdens. Seaway traffic has lagged so far behind expectations that the $460 million U.S.-Canadian project is still losing money. The seaway has failed to generate enough revenue to retire its bonds...
Despite the 78 day-old New England Telephone and Telegraph strike, Summer School students living in Harvard dormatories are getting telephones installed...
Even if the strike ends soon, however, Wallace could not predict any speed-up in installations. "I don't think it would make any appreciable difference," he said...