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...pick up garbage and teachers stay away from their classrooms, the resulting disruptions win little sympathy for their cause. As a result, workers who provide vital public services are turning increasingly to work slowdowns -strikes, of a sort, that do not carry quite the onus of a full-scale walkout. As Anthony D'Avanzo, general chairman of New York City Lodge 886 of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, put it last week, "We don't want to strike, because that would just make us look like culprits...
Once seated at the table for a session, the senior members of either side cannot leave before the meeting is over without signifying a walkout. Since the meetings sometimes run as long as nine hours, the confrontation is known informally as "the battle of the bladder." Only the two senior members speak, and they do not speak to each other but through intermediaries, communicating only by glares. Everything is translated not only into English and Korean, but into Chinese as well; four Chinese delegates are present at almost every meeting, with Mao badges displayed on their tunics...
Connecticut (44): A walkout by 5 McCarthy delegates reduces the state's delegation to 39 votes-all leaning to Humphrey unless the squabble is resolved by compromise or court order...
...Youth is fulminating all over the landscape, in walkouts, sit-ins, and other forms of exhibitionism. Seventy-five years ago, I inspired a walkout and was temporarily suspended. There has been no psychological change in youth in these 75 years. I know-I have lived with them. The colt in the pasture sometimes kicks a hole in the fence. He will probably mature into a very fine horse. If he is to be trained it sometimes requires a tight rein and sometimes a flip of the whip on the buttocks. Most of these youngsters of ours will mature into substantial...
...contrast to 1947, when a walkout of 370,000 workers snarled the nation's telephone communications for 44 days, the 84-million-phone Bell System is now all but invulnerable to shutdown by strike. Only 18 of Bell's towns (among them: York, Ala., Nashwauk, Minn.) are still served by manual switchboards; elsewhere, automated equipment has eliminated the need for operators on 99.8% of local calls and 91% of long-distance calls. The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. insists that its new gear can function without attention indefinitely. And even union men concede that, thanks to up-from...