Word: walkout
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...opening session of the congress that the United States will stay in Vietnam until some honorable settlement can be arranged, he got a standing ovation. Not one of the 50 or so people who picketed Humphrey's speech was a congress delegate, and a plan to stage a walkout from the auditorium failed utterly...
Both sides were ready .for a strike, if it came. United Steelworker locals dusted off strike signs, prepared rosters of pickets, set aside emergency relief funds; in case there was an unexpectedly long walkout, the parent union could dip into a $20 million surplus. Steelmen halted deliveries of coal, limestone and iron ore as of this week, began clearing their yards of freight cars to avoid paying demurrage charges, sent orders out to start cooling off the giant open-hearth furnaces...
...week vacation plan adopted in 1963. In the current shipping strike, the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union is interested almost exclusively in guaranteed vacations and pensions. Black Eyes for All. Abel was not anxious to strike. His men have barely recouped income losses suffered during the record 116-day walkout in 1959, and the union is still racked by internal dissension as a result of longtime President David McDonald's disputed election defeat by Abel last February. Nonetheless, Abel was anxious to make his first contract...
...Kenosha strike could not have come at a worse time for the ailing company, which had just begun production of its 1966 models. If the walkout lasts, it could cripple American Motors' 1966-model introduction in October and cause a further decline in auto sales, which so far this year are nearly 11% below 1964's level. When officials at U.A.W. headquarters in Detroit heard a report-later proved erroneous-that the demonstrators had displayed a sign reading "We're going to bury the company," they hastily issued a disclaimer: "The U.A.W. has absolutely no intention...
...days, the strikers could no longer stand it, and last week they al lowed longshoremen to remove the crate containing her six sculptures. That was about the only visible progress in the eight-week-old maritime strike, which has become one of the most frustrating in U.S. history. The walkout by deck officers, engineers and radiomen has idled 99 of the best U.S. ships (including the superliner United States), beached 10,000 officers and seamen and cost the economy some $90 million...