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...What do you think of our strike?" quipped Socialist Leader Mário Scares last week. He was referring to one of the most bizarre events in Portugal since the 1974 revolution: the government itself was staging a walkout. Its strike was to protest the massive rallies that have stymied its every move and the military's inability to guarantee its security to govern. The action meant that the 15-member Cabinet would no longer show up for work until President Francisco da Costa Gomes managed to restore discipline to the armed forces...
Despite NOW's plea, movement and non-movement women alike seem confused, unaware or unaffected by the threat of the general walkout, which NOW leaders have dubbed "Alice Doesn't National Strike Day," derived from the book and movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore...
...strike follows a day-long walkout by 60,000 Icelandic women--almost 100 per cent of Iceland's female population--on Saturday. The walkout disrupted many of the country's activities, including the publication of newspapers and other public communication...
...emergencies. For the first time since the Washington Post's pressmen went on strike and sabotaged nine presses early this month (TIME, Oct. 13), the paper was able to turn out a full 550,000-copy edition in its own plant last week. The pressmen's walkout has been joined by three other Post unions, but the nation's eighth largest morning paper seemed to be adjusting to the siege remarkably well...
...scheduled to rise by $5 million this year alone. Despite union opposition to labor-saving machinery, the paper bought new photographic composition equipment and began installing it in administrative offices two floors above the pressroom. It also started training about 125 employees to produce the paper during a walkout. Much of that instruction was received at the Newspaper Production and Research Center, an impressively equipped printing school in Oklahoma City supported by the Post and 200 other papers and known among union members as a "school for scabs." Indeed, the center was organized largely by a newspaper production manager...