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...industries-would be for Johnson to act on his broader promise to propose legislative safeguards against any strike that jeopardized the national welfare. He has failed to do so, presumably for fear of offending big labor. But neither Congress nor the country is in any mood to tolerate a walkout as damaging as last year's airlines strike. Perhaps sensing this, Johnson said last week that he was renewing his "search for a just and general solution to emergency strike or lockout problems." By the White House clock, the best time for such action seems to be uncomfortably...
...walkout climaxed an all-day struggle between evenly divided party liberals and conservatives. The conservative faction left when it appeared that Richard Nixon, their candidate for the presidential nomination, was going to lose, Irwin Gains, program director of the Harvard Republican Club, said...
Five, days after their walkout protesting the dismissal of Theologian Charles Curran (TIME, April 28), the 7,200 students and faculty members of Washington's Catholic University returned to class last week- following the total capitulation of their trustees. Before a crowd of strikers gathered outside the campus library, the university chancellor, Archbishop Patrick O'Boyle of Washington announced that the board- composed of 33 U.S.Roman Catholic prelates and eleven laymen- had decided to rehire Father Curran. More than that, the trustees agreed to promote him to the rank of associate professor...
Bargaining Tool. Nothing could cripple the complex economy of the U.S. more swiftly or spectacularly than a rail strike. In a month-long walkout, the President told Congress last week, unemployment would rocket from the current 3.6% level to 15%, and the gross national product would plummet by nearly $100 billion-after a first quarter during which the $764 billion-a-year G.N.P. failed to show any substantial growth for the first time since 1961. Some 750,000 New York, Philadelphia and Chicago commuters would be stranded, and Defense Department shipments would be cut by as much as 40% -including...
...real irony was the walkout itself, which had now spread to 18,000 AFTRA members and roughly 1,500 supporters from sister unions. That was a lot of muscle flexing, considering that the contract dispute involved a mere 300 announcers and newsmen from the three networks' outlets in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. For the reporters, AFTRA was asking a $325-a-week guaranteed salary plus at least 50% of the fees earned for sponsored appearances; the networks were offering $300 and 25%. For the announcers, the industry's proposal of $220 a week was within...