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...airline travel crisis, according to AP dispatches last night, began last Friday when a strike closed down Trans World Airlines. Eastern Air Lines stopped all flights Monday after a walkout of mechanics and engineers...
...Ventana oilfield in Mendoza province, did the meaning of Frondizi's deals sink home. A group of Peronista oilworkers in Mendoza gave Frondizi 48 hours to cancel the oil contracts. When Frondizi ignored their ultimatum, they struck. The national oilworkers' union then called for a nationwide walkout, and other Communist-and-Peronista-dominat-ed unions threatened a general strike...
...Ford has twice as many dealer orders now as a year ago, Buick three times as many, and Plymouth is up 16%. But there are still not enough cars to meet demand and get a true picture of the market. Last week, to make matters worse, a five-day walkout of white-collar workers at Chrysler Corp. forced a 63% slash in output, and Rambler stopped production after the Budd plant at Gary, Ind., makers of Rambler underbodies, went on strike...
...denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last week 180,000 coal miners, 60,000 postal and 50,000 telegraph workers went on strike in protest. Railroad workers forced the cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem was in the Diet itself. Only four out of 46 bills introduced this session have been passed, and the Diet was scheduled to adjourn before week's end. Kishi decided to have the Diet...
...pact is retroactive to Oct. 20, four days after the beginning of a current Machinists Union strike against Capital. It will also apply to an Eastern walkout threatened for 12 midnight tomorrow...