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Britain's trade-union bosses saw nothing but mischief in the Back Britain movement. "A pure gimmick," said Jim Conway, 53, general secretary of the 1,300,000-member Amalgamated Engineering Union to which most of the employees at the girls' company belong. "The problem in British industry," he added, "is outdated, outmoded factories, and outmoded and ill-equipped management." Nonetheless, the workers at the girls' firm defied a union order to stop the free work and even threatened to bolt the union...
...marbled gaze of Lincoln's statue, red and blue Viet Cong flags mingled with signs affirming that "Che Guevara Lives," posters proclaiming "Dump Johnson" and asking "Where Is Oswald When We Need Him?" The meeting had hardly begun before three Nazis were arrested for jumping a British trade-union orator who criticized U.S. involvement in Viet...
European nations, though unanimously outraged with the colonels, have responded with surprisingly moderate pressure. The Common Market's legislative branch warned the Greek government that the European Community will cease its association with Greece unless democratic structures and political trade-union freedoms are restored. The Market has rejected a Greek request for a $50 million development loan, but that is the least of the junta's worries. Its own irresponsibility in financial matters, coupled with the inevitable decline in the tourist business and foreign markets, is returning the nation to the economic depression and semi-feudal society which it sought...
...just about the world's biggest goof-offs. In Rumania, they cost industry $75 million in wasted time during the first four months of this year. Bulgaria lost 25 million man-days last year because of absenteeism. When Polish factory workers show up at all, says the Communist trade-union paper Glos Pracy, they "work only about 70% of their normal eight-hour...
...parties, but this in no way implies the exclusion of legitimate contrast of opinions." What Franco did was trim the power of his own politically potent Falange, which has long dominated the Spanish labor movement. He abolished the old laws banning strikes and requiring that only Falangistas hold top trade-union jobs...