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Wilson's main worry is that labor may ruin Labor's chances. Fearful that the proposed curtailment of service would put 70,000 of 475,000 workers out of work, the National Union of Railwaymen has called a three-day protest walkout for mid-May. Wilson, who is grimly aware of the damage dealt Labor by a crippling London transport strike before the 1959 election, attempted repeatedly last week to make the railwaymen call off their unpopular walkout, but made little headway. Prayed a Tory Cabinet minister: "Just give us that strike, and watch the votes pour into...
...Cabinet walkout was intended to bring the Baathists to heel, and it well might. Isolated in power, with the street mobs sympathetic to Nasser and the army of uncertain loyalty, Baath's only available allies are the merchants and landowners, who most oppose Nasser's social objectives. Their embrace could be as fatal to Baath as Israel's would be to Hussein...
Jagan continues to stir up antagonism inside the country, and last week his regime was challenged by a paralyzing general strike. The walkout was called to protest labor legislation that would require government-directed union elections in all industries. The powerful Trades Union Council suspected Cheddi of trying to grab control of the unions, insisted on elections regulated by an independent agency...
...wave of labor unrest that has swept Dictator Francisco Franco's Spain this spring. In Barcelona the Hispano Suiza airplane-engine plant recently laid off 150 employees following a series of work slowdowns, was forced to hire them back when j.ooo Olivetti factory employees threatened a sympathy walkout. Two sitdown strikes in a single week disrupted work in a Seville textile plant. Six hundred Madrid metalworkers have been threatening similar trouble after stubbornly refusing to sign a new contract...
Cleveland's strike began with a surprise November walkout by delivery truck drivers demanding higher wages. They were followed next day by the 525-member Guild, representing editorial and commercial employees. Printers, mailers and machinists joined the picket lines too, but it was the Guild that kept the strike going for most of its 18½ weeks. In New York, ironically, it was the Guildsmen who were most anxious to get back to work...