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What dock strike? Now in its second month and with a good possibility of ending this week, the walkout by longshoremen at container ports from Maine to Texas has so far sent no more than a ripple through the U.S. economy. It has been a strike of a thousand pinpricks-an annoying shortage here, a raised price there. Unlike stoppages in major industries such as coal and steel, which threaten the nation's ability to produce, the dock strike has only slowed or stopped deliveries of hundreds of less-than-vital imported items-Danish hams, French wines, foreign cars...
...current strike is the fourth at Yale since 1968, when student workers broke the first walkout after six days. In 1971 the strike lasted seven weeks, and three years ago Local 35 was out for ten weeks. There must be some compromise, before this year's strike drags on any longer. For the workers, living on a $30 a week union allowance, the weeks ahead and the upcoming holiday season leave little to be thankful for. For the students, more weeks of the strike mean more discomfort and disruption of their educations. Sen. George McGovern (D.S.D.) and Secretary of Labor...
Yale administrators said yesterday the university has not changed its position in the six-week-old walkout by Yale maintainance, custodial, and service union employees, and called misleading an article that appeared in The New York Times yesterday stating that the university has softened its stand...
...Yale administration has refused throughout the walkout to submit the dispute to binding, third-party arbitration, and contract negotiations have been suspened indefinitely...
Henry and 25 other Yale students were demonstrating to support striking members of Local 35 of the University Employees Union. Henry is the first student to be arrested in connection with the four-week-old walkout...