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...nuclear research but actually to discuss the strike. From that point on, the rectors acted as mediators, helped both sides to retreat from impossible positions. The government succeeded in getting the doctors to end the strike before resuming negotiations on the new health-insurance law that had provoked the walkout...
...ahead for putting the new work rules into effect. But once again, at the request of the Administration, management held off. In the meantime, the unions were three times enjoined from striking. Then, last week, workers of the Illinois Central went out on a wildcat strike-a surprise walkout without giving the notice that would make another injunction possible. Next day the carriers, determined not to be picked off one by one, announced that they would finally put national work-rules changes into effect. As expected, the unions retaliated by setting a national strike deadline...
...become a completely hollow phrase denoting frustration and immobility. Despite the efforts of several impartial mediation boards, the railroads's five-year-old work rules dispute was thrust into Congress last summer when the first peace time arbitration law in history was needed to prevent a crippling national walkout...
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's administration had long delayed such a drastic step, though a S.I.U. walkout and the dynamiting of a Canadian freighter manned by a rival union last fall indicated that there would be no waterfront peace as long as Banks was in power. For the past five months, government-appointed trustees have run the S.I.U. in an effort to clean it up and get the members themselves to vote Banks...
...fight, limiting himself to frequent phone calls to Mansfield or Hubert Humphrey, floor manager for the pro-rights coalition. "When he's most needed," says a Johnson aide, "he'll get into it." Humphrey, a veteran civil rights battler who sparked the 1948 Dixiecrat walkout at the Demo cratic National Convention by inspiring the insertion of a strong rights plank, will be backed up by three strongly liberal deputies: Washington's Warren Magnuson, whose Commerce Committee late last year approved a separate public accommodations bill that is slightly stronger than the version passed by the House; Pennsylvania...