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Unbridled Power. But preceding the U.S., Nationalist China's Ambassador Tingfu Tsiang went to the rostrum, and Zorin led the other Communist bloc delegates in a walkout from the General Assembly. Tsiang dismissed the Communist regime as "un-Chinese in origin, nature and purpose." Reviewing the grim record of Red tyranny on the mainland. Tsiang urged that tears be shed "over the suffering" of the Chinese people rather than for "their lack of representation...
Superficially, the Journal walkout resembled many another newspaper strike. It began when 57 mailers in I.T.U. Local 23 left their jobs, demanding higher pay and job security. When other shop unions refused to cross picket lines, the strike force soon reached 500-nearly all Journal stockholders. In the hands of a skilled labor negotiator from St. Louis, the real strike issue abruptly came clear. Even though 1,025 employees own some stock, the executives control the paper...
...month later, Goldberg intervened in the most costly airline strike in U.S. history, brought about settlement of a wildcat walkout of flight engineers by setting up a reviewing board of three professors. In May, Goldberg scored his most substantive single triumph. Hard on the heels of a Senate investigation into the scandalous work stoppages in missile-site construction, he got a no-strike, no-lockout commitment from labor and management, set up an arbitration committee to decide on differences while work went on. In 1960, walkouts cost the U.S. 86,000 man-days of work on its missile sites. Goldberg...
...quick settlement. On the strength of repeated hints dropped by Arthur Goldberg, Detroit became convinced that the Administration was prepared to take extraordinary action in case of an auto strike that might jeopardize the business recovery and the defense speedup. While General Motors figured it could economically risk a walkout, it also figured that to do so would only invite prompt government intervention that very likely would enforce the same kind of settlement that G.M. accepted voluntarily...
...first major U.S. maritime walkout in six years was strange indeed. It tied up 222 ships on all three coasts, threatened fuel shortages in the East and food shortages in Hawaii, and left frustrated federal mediators awash in a sea of conflicting charges and demands. Ranged on one side of the dispute were the owners of 850 of the nation's 941 merchant ships, negotiating in three separate groups-East Coast, Gulf Coast and West Coast. On the other stood 50,000 working seamen and 30,000 unemployed seamen, represented by two big unions and three smaller ones...