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Public concern and Presidential indignation, however, have focused largely on the melodrama of strikes rather than on the tragedy of unemployment. The newspaper dispute, the East Coast dock strike, and a prospective walkout by the rail-road employees served to evoke the image of "featherbedding" by reactionary union leaders (ironically, the Typographers' rank-and-file now demand more advantageous terms than Mr. Powers had settled...
...Rumors circulated that S.A.O. members, disguised as cops, would attack the strikers to provoke them to violence against the government, but the only toll of the strike so far was economic. Thousands of steel and natural gas workers went out on a sympathy strike, and a 24-hour rail walkout cre.ated a transportation tie-up all over France. Into Paris drove a 342-car convoy of some 2,000 Lorraine ironworkers chanting: "Give us some sous, Pompidou...
...railroads and their operating unions will begin another effort to see if they can work out a compromise through collective bargaining. If that fails and the union threatens to strike, the President almost surely will appoint an emergency board under the Railway Labor Act, thereby staving off a walkout for at least 60 days more. The real showdown will therefore be postponed at least until summer...
...Shiff herself said at the beginning of the strike that a prolonged walkout might be disastrous for her paper. This week's issue of Time said that the strike "threatened the continued existence" of the "financially shaky" tabloid...
...Post's economic troubles are over, at least for the duration of the strike. The paper's two afternoon rivals, the World-Telegram and Sun and the Journal-American were closed down by the walkout, along with the morning Times and Daily News...