Word: walkout
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...only important defeat in three years in office came when he sought to restore to the hated police some of their former authority, including the right to search suspected criminals. The response was tumultuous from those who remembered the tyrannical "thought-control" days. A brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. There was a rash of strikes and street demonstrations called by Sohyo, the powerful, 3,500,000-strong alliance of labor unions. Socialist delegates rioted in the Diet and tried to kidnap the Speaker to prevent a vote. When even important members...
Nishio's walkout will probably make it easier for Kishi to push through the Diet the revised security treaty that U.S. and Japanese diplomats are curently negotiating, and that Premier Kishi hopes to sign on a forthcoming visit...
...investigated a meat-packing strike, became one of four to see its strike settled before an injunction had to be issued. Of the eleven cases in which injunctions came down, five were settled during the 80 days, two were settled eight days later without a post-injunction walkout. Of the four other cases that ran past cool-off, all on the strife-torn waterfront, two were solved after brief strikes. Only two slid on past the cool-off into the deepfreeze of a long strike...
George W. Taylor, the panel's chairman, said the crippling walkout, idling some 725,000 workers, is reaching the point where resuming steel production is more important than how it is done...
...Soviet walkout indicated a strong fight in the committee...