Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stilling the demonstrations, the government's response only roused Argentine workers to sympathy for the students. The workers had their own grievances: the regime had frozen wages for more than two years, while the cost of living has risen more than 20%. When the unions declared a general strike last week, the regime responded with more repression. It declared "siege law," a modified form of martial law that empowered special military courts to try civilians for a host of offenses, from sedition to threats against the army -and to order summary execution for more serious crimes...
...troops and additional ammunition, while jets fired off warning bursts of machine-gun fire overhead. Finally, the army ordered soldiers to shoot anyone appearing on the streets without permission during a dusk-to-dawn curfew. But neither curfew nor martial law nor dire warnings could halt the general strike next day. In Córdoba, riots broke out anew, and police opened fire on a crowd of 2,000 marchers. In the rest of the country, the strike brought all commerce, industry and transportation to a halt. The toll so far: 12 dead, 300 injured; 230 have been arrested. Ongania...
Relevant Bull. The free university movement is based on familiar complaints, most of them summarized in a petition circulated by a group of teaching fellows during Harvard's recent student strike. Said the petition, which was signed by more than a thousand Harvard students: "Professors are hired for their research achievements, not their teaching ability. Almost the only educational technique employed by senior faculty members is the lecture, involving no communication or concern. Grades are awarded for effective mimicry. The university seems not to care for the self-understanding, self-respect or independent thought of its students...
Capitalizing on the ferment of the strike, the teaching fellows established Harvard New College, a good example of how free universities work. No tuition is charged, no teacher is paid, no grades or credits are given. Anyone who wants to teach a course merely lists it on a posted weekly schedule; if it draws students, it is a course. Classes take the form of discussion groups, usually meet once or twice a week in common rooms and student suites, and are led by teaching fellows or undergraduates themselves. Anyone can attend by signing up. Except for a few university secretaries...
...student radicalism may be attributed to the traditional dilemma of sending the book to the printers when the year is only two-thirds done. Spring 1969 was a particularly unfortunate Spring to miss, and Three Thirty Three has rallied with a sixteen-page supplement on the occupation, bust, and strike. But the insensitivity is still evident. The Yearbook photographers are sensationally good on the dismay of the early-morning spectators at University Hall and the excitement of the crowd and participants at the first mass meeting. But they tell almost nothing about what was happening inside University Hall and seem...