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...second nationwide rail strike in six months ran too long last week (40 hours) to be called merely an inconvenience but not long enough to be remembered as a crisis. Among those hurt by the walkout were hundreds of thousands of metropolitan commuters who jammed buses and highways to get to their jobs, some automakers and other manufacturers, who began furloughing employees, and U.S. Congressmen, many of whom had to cut short their all-too-customary long weekends to get the trains moving again. They rushed through the sixth bill in the past four years to head off national rail...
...hard-nosed roles down to the deadline, even though a settlement might be reached weeks or even months earlier. Already, many executives believe that any settlement will approximate the can-industry package. Some top union officials are saying privately that they do not think that there will be a walkout. After three weeks of examining the issues with both sides, TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark reports: "I would place the odds of a steel strike at even money. If there is a strike, it will last less than six weeks...
...likelihood of a strike in August. General Motors, for example, is building a 90-day steel supply, compared with its normal 30-day stockpile. Steel customers are thus creating a built-in slack for the industry later in the year, whether or not it is actually hit by a walkout...
...year. That would be the worst record since the great General Strike of 1926. Last week a one-day protest strike against Heath's proposed Industrial Relations Bill-designed to curtail wildcat strikes by making union contracts legally binding-involved more than 1,200,000 workers. Another such walkout is planned for next week...
...postal workers' walkout has proved particularly grating. Everyone lost something, except for a handful of enterprising chaps who set up emergency mail-carrying services for high fees. When extravagantly mustached Union Leader Tom Jackson tearfully asked postal workers in Hyde Park last week to return to their appointed rounds while a three-man board studied their demands, he was booed for five solid minutes. The postmen, who were demanding a 13% increase in their weekly pay, which now runs from $36 to $66 (the Post Office offered 8%), had lost nearly $432 per man. The Post Office has suffered...