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...resulted in several stoppages on the assembly lines. The first of the U.A.W.'s 160,000 Ford employees walked off more than eleven hours before their old contract expired. The strike was almost anticlimactic, even though it closed down 93 Ford plants in 25 states. Reuther announced the walkout shortly after midnight, then went home to nurse a case of laryngitis he had picked up in eight weeks of futile negotiations. When payday rolled around, many striking workers simply went to company parking lots, where Ford had the payroll waiting in armored trucks...
Machinists, are demanding 6.5% more. Last month the shop unions backed up their demands with a walkout that paralyzed rail traffic for two days before President Johnson, with hasty congressional sanction, ordered a 90-day cooling-off period. The railroads' working capital is lower than it has been in 20 years, and their return on investment capital this year will be a scant 3.5%. Deciding that the industry complaints were "just and reasonable," the ICC unanimously agreed to give the railroads most of the money they sought...
Defying the Administration-just as it had during last summer's $3 billion, 45-day airline strike-the militant International Association of Machinists triggered a walkout that laid off 600,000 rail employees and paralyzed 95% of the nation's 216,000-mile rail network. Lyndon Johnson, in no mood for a repetition of the airlines debacle, called the strike a "national crisis" and urged Congress to take immediate action. Swiftly, the House and Senate found the formula that had eluded them for so long. Barely 48 hours after it had begun, the first nationwide railroad strike...
...something of a necessary evil. Thanks to a decline in the number of nun teachers and a rapid growth of Catholic schools, laymen now constitute one-third of the parochial teaching force-and they are no longer content to accept second-class citizenship. In the past six weeks, teacher walkouts have hit three Chicago high schools, while last-minute negotiations narrowly averted similar strikes in New York City and Philadelphia. In the Los Angeles suburb of Mission Hills, 32 male lay teachers of Alemany High School recently negotiated their first written contract with archdiocesan administrators after yet another walkout...
...Printing Office is functioning despite the walkout. Its associate director. Carl Getz, has said that it will be able to print all University exams, using supervisory personnel to operate the lithographic presses...